Re: Disappearing Root files

[Mark E. Hamilton]

Todd,

Todd Denniston wrote:
> You would not happen to be doing your "nightly checkout/build/test 
> process" under /tmp/ would you?
>
> I have seen similar problems with folks who tried to work under tmp for 
> a while. The tmp cleaner would come along and see the file had not been 
> changed for ~1 week and remove it, slowly deleting everything. :)
>
> CVS/Root is one of those files that usually does not change after checkout.
>
> If you are not working in /tmp, you might ask (with a big stick in hand 
> as needed) the machine admin if (s)he has a helper running against that 
> directory structure to get rid of files that have not been 
> "used||changed" for a while.

Thanks. I was working in /tmp and that's the first thing I thought of, 
but my sysadmin *assured* me that there was nothing running that would 
do such a thing. However, after your reply I started poking around and, 
sure enough it looks like tmpwatch is being run daily on /tmp. Now, 
where did I put that stick? ;)

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Mark E. Hamilton
Orion International Technologies, Inc.
Sandia National Laboratory, NM.
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