Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 09:51:36 -0500 From: hawk <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: invisible files in /usr/tmp ??? Message-ID: <200103091451.f29EpaW63580@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Mar 2001 16:51:10 CST." <15012.6238.869999.371983@guru.mired.org>
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mike mentioned > hawk <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> types: > > I'm having a problem with files in /usr/tmp becoming "invisible." > Being "invisble" implies that they are still there, but you can't see > them. What makes you think they are still there? When I try to download again, netscape apparently sees them and asks if I want to overwrite. > > Typically, this comes when downloading a file with netscape. ls then > > can see the file, and that it's copying over it if I download again, > > but ls cannot see the files. > I can't parse this. Please try again. I download a file, apparently successfully. I look in /usr/tmp, but it shows no evidence of being there. I then tell netscape to download again, and it asks if it should overwrite the file. > > While I'm at it, neither /tmp nor /usr/tmp seem to be regularly deleting > > files; could this be related? > Nope. You can enable cleaning tmp by adding the appropriate things to > /etc/periodic.conf. See the periodic.conf man page for details. mmm, htat would explain why so many systems seem to fall out of the habit :) thanks hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 dochawk@psu.edu These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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