Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:51:10 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: hawk <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: invisible files in /usr/tmp ??? Message-ID: <15012.6238.869999.371983@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <449168@toto.iv>
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hawk <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> 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? > 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. > While I'm at it, neither /tmp nor /usr/tmp seem to be regularly deleting > files; could this be related? Nope. You can enable cleaning tmp by adding the appropriate things to /etc/periodic.conf. See the periodic.conf man page for details. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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