Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:58:28 -0500 From: Derrick Norris <denorris@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why would nightly disk cleanup stop deleting some files? Message-ID: <200111171958.fAHJwTC08514@visar.norris-net.com>
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I have the daily clean disks enabled in periodic.conf. I can't remember exactly when this started happening (perhaps when I cvsupped and built world to 4.4-RELEASE, not sure), but I recently noticed that the nightly disk cleanup is not deleting some files that it formerly would. For instance, I had several core files in my home directory (the well-known kdeinit core which happens every time I log out of KDE, a couple of xscreensaver core dumps, etc.) and I noticed that some of them had been there for a while, but daily disk cleanup was supposed to be getting rid of them. In fact, after I noticed this, I checked the atime on the .core files yesterday and verified that they should be deleted during last night's daily run. Well this morning, my daily mail output didn't list the files as being deleted, and they were still in my home directory with the atime reset, so the days would have to start counting up again and the .core files would apparently never get deleted. I just went ahead and deleted them manually today. Does anyone have any ideas what might cause these files to be accessed, thus resetting the atime and causing 100.clean-disks to bypass them during cleanup? Would just doing an ls -lu or a find -atime in my home directory reset the access time on those files (so that I was inadvertently doing it myself)? Thanks, Derrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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