At 11:33 AM 12/4/2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:30:13 -0600, Derek Ragona
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> /root is on /dev/da0s1a
>
> This particular server is running in a VM on a vmware esx 3.5 server.
> The server runs fine, but every so often the dot files disappear for
> root. I have not found the behavior to follow a reboot, but some period
> of time. Hence my suspicions it was a periodic script.
Check your crontab jobs then.
* Do you have any local changes to the system crontab in
`/etc/crontab'? If yes, what are those changes, and what do the
scripts or other commands they run look like?
* Do you have a user-specific crontab file for `root' in
`/var/cron/tabs/root'? If yes what does it contain?
_______________________________________________
Thank you to everyone who made great suggestions. I found the errant
script, and it was running out of a cron entry to clean up old mailscanner
files. It seems if the directories in the script didn't all exist, and a
cd failed, it left the script running in /root. I have since corrected the
script to test for the directories existence first.
But this was a case of "can't see the forest for the trees" and I do
appreciate all the help and suggestions.
-Derek
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