On Saturday 05 July 2003 23:06, Frank Smith wrote:
>--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

First thing I checked Frank, and came up blank, 0anacron is the only 
thing there.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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