Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:55:21 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what script is whacking root's files Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20081208055153.02762670@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <87tz9jzvy3.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20081203192259.0241ef88@mail.computinginnovations.com> <49374418.6060709@FreeBSD.org> <ade45ae90812032311v47e92cf2g30bc3e2915d38276@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20081204062415.026b7c80@mail.computinginnovations.com> <87tz9jzvy3.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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At 11:33 AM 12/4/2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:30:13 -0600, Derek Ragona ><derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote: > > /root is on /dev/da0s1a > > > > This particular server is running in a VM on a vmware esx 3.5 server. > > The server runs fine, but every so often the dot files disappear for > > root. I have not found the behavior to follow a reboot, but some period > > of time. Hence my suspicions it was a periodic script. > >Check your crontab jobs then. > > * Do you have any local changes to the system crontab in > `/etc/crontab'? If yes, what are those changes, and what do the > scripts or other commands they run look like? > > * Do you have a user-specific crontab file for `root' in > `/var/cron/tabs/root'? If yes what does it contain? > >_______________________________________________ Thank you to everyone who made great suggestions. I found the errant script, and it was running out of a cron entry to clean up old mailscanner files. It seems if the directories in the script didn't all exist, and a cd failed, it left the script running in /root. I have since corrected the script to test for the directories existence first. But this was a case of "can't see the forest for the trees" and I do appreciate all the help and suggestions. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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