Read-only perms and auditing on success or failure should keep track of what's happening. If it's more insidious, I'd suggest unplugging it from the network for a little bit to verify it's a local problem. If so, I'd either do the fdisk/format dance or replace the HDD depending on the budget and production severity.
-----Original Message----- From: John Cesta - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 7:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Files keep disappearing from the winnt dir Our server is not running the dir replicator. Imagine this... You load explorer, navigate to the c:\winnt directory and list it. You see all the directories and the files. Mostly the files are some ini and txt files along with some exes that you may or may not use. Anyway, you see them all in there. You close explorer and go get a cup of coffee. You return, load explorer, navigate to the c:\winnt dir again the files are gone except for two exes. IN our case it is the named.exe and another I forgot. Keep in mind, now, you are the only one who can access this computer since it is locked in a cage in a very protected datacenter, trust me, you are the only one that has access. This is what is happening. There is no dir replication service running or any other funky software or scheduled maintenance or apps....nothing. The only thing I can think of is that the file system is corrupt and the files just get eaten up. I then copy them back into the winnt dir ( I have them stored on another part of the hard disk since they keep vanishing) and it happens again. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Wong, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 12:31 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Files keep disappearing from the winnt dir > > > Is the server running the Directory Replicator service? > > ... Joe > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Cesta - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:12 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Files keep disappearing from the winnt dir > > > > > AT service isn't running. No hands ever touch that server, it's > in a locked > cabinet only accessible by me, my access code, palm print and badge.. > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Steele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 12:44 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Files keep disappearing from the winnt dir > > > WAG: Is the Task Scheduler running? Check to see if anyone's set anything > nasty to run. > > Brian > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John Cesta - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lists > To: NT System Admin > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Issues > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:07 AM > Subject: Files keep disappearing from the winnt dir > > > > I am having a sort of weird problem on one of my NT4.0 SP6a > servers. A while > back I had to clean the server - chkdsk - seemed to work ok. > > After that this problem keeps occurring. 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