From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 14:51:15 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 6251237B71A for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:51:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 12015 invoked by uid 100); 5 Mar 2001 22:51:10 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15012.6238.869999.371983@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:51:10 -0600 To: hawk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: invisible files in /usr/tmp ??? In-Reply-To: <449168@toto.iv> 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: > 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. 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