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