Re: what script is whacking root's files
At 11:33 AM 12/4/2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:30:13 -0600, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what script is whacking root's files
At 01:11 AM 12/4/2008, Tim Judd wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: I have a freshly installed 7.0 release server. The configuration files (all dot files including .ssh etc.) in /root keep getting deleted. I assume this is from a script running from periodic and can be set NOT to delete these files. Can someone point me where I need to make this change. I have already combed through the handbook and mailing list archives. There is no such standard script in FreeBSD. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd make sure there's not something like a tmpfs/mfs filesystem that /root is being used on. If / is on a ramdisk image of any kind, on each reboot, it should disappear. Perhaps you should paste your fstab and current mounted filesystems as an aid to debug. I didn't think it would be from the way the filesystems are mounted, so here's that information: cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/da0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/da0s1d /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 mount /dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/da0s1d on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /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. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what script is whacking root's files
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:11 AM 12/4/2008, Tim Judd wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: I have a freshly installed 7.0 release server. The configuration files (all dot files including .ssh etc.) in /root keep getting deleted. I assume this is from a script running from periodic and can be set NOT to delete these files. Can someone point me where I need to make this change. I have already combed through the handbook and mailing list archives. There is no such standard script in FreeBSD. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd make sure there's not something like a tmpfs/mfs filesystem that /root is being used on. If / is on a ramdisk image of any kind, on each reboot, it should disappear. Perhaps you should paste your fstab and current mounted filesystems as an aid to debug. I didn't think it would be from the way the filesystems are mounted, so here's that information: cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/da0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/da0s1d /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 mount /dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/da0s1d on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /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. -Derek all dotfiles are hidden, in terms of the usability of the files. Some shells will alias 'ls' with -a to show all files (including dotfiles). Other shells don't alias it so it hides the files. Are you sure they really disappear, or are they gone from a directory listing because ls is not being called with -(a)ll files displayed? I just think that your files are not being deleted. Something is just not being specified. Check system crontab file (/etc/crontab) and your own crontab (crontab -lu root) Change your root password, incase somebody's in there, deleting your files to hide their own tracks. chmod -R 0600 /root I agree that there isn't something correct about this, but i'm positive it's not a base periodic script that's included in FreeBSD Base install. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what script is whacking root's files
Derek Ragona wrote: 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. Are you sure the vmware server doesn't periodically (or on reboot, perhaps?) revert the disk's content to an earlier snapshot? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: what script is whacking root's files
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:30:13 -0600, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what script is whacking root's files
Derek Ragona wrote: I have a freshly installed 7.0 release server. The configuration files (all dot files including .ssh etc.) in /root keep getting deleted. I assume this is from a script running from periodic and can be set NOT to delete these files. Can someone point me where I need to make this change. I have already combed through the handbook and mailing list archives. There is no such standard script in FreeBSD. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what script is whacking root's files
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: I have a freshly installed 7.0 release server. The configuration files (all dot files including .ssh etc.) in /root keep getting deleted. I assume this is from a script running from periodic and can be set NOT to delete these files. Can someone point me where I need to make this change. I have already combed through the handbook and mailing list archives. There is no such standard script in FreeBSD. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd make sure there's not something like a tmpfs/mfs filesystem that /root is being used on. If / is on a ramdisk image of any kind, on each reboot, it should disappear. Perhaps you should paste your fstab and current mounted filesystems as an aid to debug. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
