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xPol
Dec 27, 2009, 8:53:50 AM12/27/09
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A weird behavior on my laptop linux: directories /usr/local/var/log
/usr/local/var/logs created by root get deleted a few minutes afterwards.
/usr/local/var/logs created by root get deleted a few minutes afterwards.
How can i discover what process is to blame?
thank you
---P
Doug Freyburger
Dec 27, 2009, 12:06:28 PM12/27/09
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Check crontab jobs especially those owned by root. It's common to have
a crontab job that trims files whose name ends in log and the one on
this system may fail to check for regular files - I've seen that happen
when someone made a pipe as a logfile and still wanted it trimmed.
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