On Saturday 05 July 2003 23:06, Frank Smith wrote: >--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
First thing I checked Frank, and came up blank, 0anacron is the only thing there. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
