[CentOS] Missing File

[Larry Vaden]

On 6/15/06, dennis <dennis at bulacan.gov.ph> wrote:
> im running CentOS 4.3 Final, one thing experience in my box i have /tmp
> (partition/directory) inside that i have a directory installer and i file
> one week after the file and directory (installer) inside the /tmp is
> missing, can i retrieve that directory and file? it is normal some file in
> the /tmp is missing?,im not deleting that file and directory. hope you can
> help me ,thank you in advcance,im newbie in CentOS Linux.

Did you reboot in that time period?

If so, the following code in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit may explain what
happened;  if it doesn't, someone else may know of additional ways to
lose the contents of the /tmp (read: temporary)  directory.

# Clean up various /tmp bits
rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock /tmp/.lock.* /tmp/.gdm_socket /tmp/.s.PGSQL.*
rm -rf /tmp/.X*-unix /tmp/.ICE-unix /tmp/.font-unix /tmp/hsperfdata_* \
       /tmp/kde-* /tmp/ksocket-* /tmp/mc-* /tmp/mcop-* /tmp/orbit-*  \
       /tmp/scrollkeeper-*  /tmp/ssh-*
# Make ICE directory
mkdir -m 1777 -p /tmp/.ICE-unix >/dev/null 2>&1
chown root:root /tmp/.ICE-unix

rgds/ldv