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From: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
To: xtekhne@gmail.com
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the disappearing directory
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:09:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19255.34472.219501.728079@cerise.gclements.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hh7evr$9g1$1@ger.gmane.org>


xPol wrote:

> A weird behavior on my laptop:  directories /usr/local/var/log  
> /usr/local/var/logs created by root get deleted a few minutes afterwards. 
> 
> How can i discover what process is to blame?

One possibility is to create a file in that directory with the
immutable attribute ("chattr +i ...") and see if anything shows up in
the system log files.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-27 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-27 11:04 the disappearing directory xPol
2009-12-27 16:09 ` Glynn Clements [this message]
2009-12-27 16:33   ` Herta Van den Eynde
2009-12-27 16:19 ` Tom Corwine

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