On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 12:51:56 PM UTC+5:30, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2012-12-10, sinbad wrote: > > > On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:51:05 PM UTC+5:30, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > > On 2012-12-05, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > > > > > > Have you checked all your cronjobs and scripts, that you run? > > > > > Can you eliminate, that root doesn't run some jobs, that clean /tmp? > > > > > > > > You may have to do some digging to find root's cron jobs. For > > > > example, on my Ubuntu 10.04 system, "sudo cron -l -u root" says that > > > > root has no cron jobs, but it does run /etc/crontab and the scripts > > > > in /etc/cron.d. It doesn't clean /tmp, though. > > > > > I am running as non-root and i don't have sudo > > > permission, i was not able to check the root's > > > cron jobs, i checked mine there are no cron > > > jobs running. am i screwed ? > > > > I don't think it's hopeless, but may be difficult to find the cause. > > > > You wrote that you don't have root or sudo permission. That > > suggests that you are using a computer administered by someone else. > > Can you just ask that person or someone in that group if they know > > of any /tmp-cleaning program that might be running? > > > > On my Ubuntu 10.04 and Fedora 14 systems, all the /etc/cron* files > > have 755 permissions, so you could poke around there and see if you > > can find some /tmp cleaner. > > > > It _might_ help to know the timing of these deletions. Do they > > happen after Vim has been running for a certain amount of time? Do > > they happen at certain times of day, or at a certain number of > > minutes past the hour? That might give you a clue to the cause. If > > you could predict the times at which it occurs, you could possibly > > run "ps -ef" in a loop at that time and look for suspicious > > processes. > > > > HTH, > > Gary
there are two possibilities here, first one of vim script is deleting the tmpfile, the other is some cron job might be deleting it. in the first case can i put a watch on the tmpfile created from with in vim. In the latter case, can i force vim to create the tmp directory in my homedir rather than in /tmp so that the cron job won't have access to it. please suggest ways to achieve above. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
