From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 8: 0:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 076A137B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:00:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 37832 invoked by uid 100); 9 Mar 2001 16:00:30 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15016.65053.953539.184328@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:00:29 -0600 To: hawk Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invisible files in /usr/tmp ??? In-Reply-To: <200103091451.f29EpaW63580@fac13.ds.psu.edu> References: <15012.6238.869999.371983@guru.mired.org> <200103091451.f29EpaW63580@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hawk types: > mike mentioned > > hawk types: > > > I'm having a problem with files in /usr/tmp becoming "invisible." > > Being "invisble" implies that they are still there, but you can't see > > them. What makes you think they are still there? > When I try to download again, netscape apparently sees them and asks if > I want to overwrite. > > > > Typically, this comes when downloading a file with netscape. ls then > > > can see the file, and that it's copying over it if I download again, > > > but ls cannot see the files. > > > I can't parse this. Please try again. > > I download a file, apparently successfully. I look in /usr/tmp, but it > shows no evidence of being there. I then tell netscape to download > again, and it asks if it should overwrite the file. It really sounds to me like a netscape bug - it's getting an old copy of the directory listing. Are you by any chance running the linux version of netscape? If so, there have been recent changes to the file caching code in linux that may be relevant. I'm running -stable as of the end of February, and I can't recreate the problem. You might try the BSD version of Netscape and see if that changes things. If it does and you're running -stable from March, you might try rolling back to Feb 26 or so, and see how that works. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message