There is a system wide cron file in /etc/cron.daily called tmpwatch. This
file calles /usr/sbin/tmpwatch with an argument as to how the maximum age
a file can be before it gets deleted. The default is 10 days.
To fix: rm /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
-CJO-
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
>I have been mysteriously losing files, but only from /tmp, and it is pissing me
>off. Does /tmp periodically clear out its files? If so, how do I turn this off,
>and *why was there no information stating this happens*?
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