--On Saturday, July 05, 2003 07:15:54 -0400 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greets everyone; > > I got a rather large email from amanda this morning, some of which was > caused by my online activities while it was running, as in several > tens of kilobytes worth of socket ignored warnings. As I'm > occasionally out browseing the rest of the planet that time of the > night, I've seen those before in the amanda report. > > But there were also a rather largish amount of warnings because it > appears that the /tmp/amanda-dbg directory was cleaned out and the > earliest files left were 5 of the amandad.date.debug from 20030701. > > The other 39 of those from that date, and likewise for the remainder > of that date for the other functions was on the missing list. And no > dates earlier than 20030701 existed at all. > > I was under the impression that these were kept for tapecycle number > of runs, so to have all of the 200306xx files go missing without > amanda noticeing also surprised me. > > Can someone comment? I'm sitting here scratching my ageing brain and > comeing up blank. > > Amanda is 2.4.4p1-20030703, system is rh8.0 with all updates, but > homebrewed kde-3.1.1a. > Could you (or a system update) have added a cron job to clear out old files in /tmp periodically? Perhaps someplace like in the cron.weekly or cron.monthly directories? Just a thought, Frank
