Re: the disappearing directory

2009/12/27 Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
>
> xPol wrote:
>
> > A weird behavior on my laptop:  directories /usr/local/var/log
> > /usr/local/var/logs created by root get deleted a few minutes afterwards.
> >
> > How can i discover what process is to blame?
>
> One possibility is to create a file in that directory with the
> immutable attribute ("chattr +i ...") and see if anything shows up in
> the system log files.
>
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Another possibility is to write wrapper scripts round the rm , rmdir,
and unlink commands, which write "who am i" and "pstree $$" output to
a file before executing the actual rm, rmdir or unlink.

Kind regards,

Herta

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