Re: vim script can't create /tmp file

On Tue, December 4, 2012 06:13, sinbad wrote:
> Looks like the tmp file deletion is the problem.
> when i started to see the errors i found that
> tmp file is missing.
>
> No i'm not running any cleanup job. how do i know
> if someone else is deleting the file. is there a
> way to protect the tmp file not to be deleted.
> I do not suspect any of my other scripts are deleting
> the file, as i did not install any new scripts, and i
> was running with the same set of scripts for some
> years without any problems

Check your cron jobs and check the installed packages.
A package name such as tmpreaper is suspicious.

An unconventional approach would be to create a file /tmp/dummy
chattr +i it and watch the logs, if some program is complaining.

regards,
Christian

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