hi sir lary thank you for your quick responce, yesterday one file missing when is reboot my box i checked /tmp the file is missing ,so i checked /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit for a while for what's happening,thank you again sir lary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Vaden" <vaden at texoma.net> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:06 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Missing File > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >