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Date:      Thu, 4 Dec 2008 00:11:48 -0700
From:      "Tim Judd" <tajudd@gmail.com>
To:        "Kris Kennaway" <kris@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
Subject:   Re: what script is whacking root's files
Message-ID:  <ade45ae90812032311v47e92cf2g30bc3e2915d38276@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49374418.6060709@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <6.0.0.22.2.20081203192259.0241ef88@mail.computinginnovations.com> <49374418.6060709@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Derek Ragona wrote:
>
>> I have a freshly installed 7.0 release server.  The configuration files
>> (all dot files including .ssh  etc.) in /root keep getting deleted.  I
>> assume this is from a script running from periodic and can be set NOT to
>> delete these files.  Can someone point me where I need to make this change.
>>  I have already combed through the handbook and mailing list archives.
>>
>
> There is no such standard script in FreeBSD.
>
> Kris
>
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I'd make sure there's not something like a tmpfs/mfs filesystem that /root
is being used on.  If / is on a ramdisk image of any kind, on each reboot,
it should disappear.

Perhaps you should paste your fstab and current mounted filesystems as an
aid to debug.



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