Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:7450 comp.sys.3b1:33
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!srhqla!denwa!stb!stb.info.com!michael
From: michael@stb.info.com (Michael Gersten)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Cleanup of /tmp
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.171729.11768@stb.info.com>
Date: 29 Jan 91 17:17:29 GMT
Sender: michael@stb.info.com (Michael Gersten)
Organization: The Serial Tree BBS, +1 213 397 3137
Lines: 19


I discovered that something is cleaning up /tmp without my knowledge.

It is not /etc/rc. I've been up 15 days.
It is not crontab, nor any cleanup deamons run from crontab.

Whatever it is wipes out the entire /tmp/*, without regard for
how recent the file is. This is rather unfriendly, and may cause
some programs to crash that assume that they can re-open a file
(such as a program that runs in two or three phases. Say a C compiler).

Does anyone know which program is doing this and how to stop it?
I suspect it is smgr, but a strings does not show '/tmp' in it.

		Michael
-- 
		Michael
michael@stb.info.com denwa!stb!michael anes.ucla.edu!stb!michael 
"Space is an illusion; disk space doubly so"