--On Saturday, July 05, 2003 07:15:54 -0400 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT 
verizon DOT net> 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