Neal Becker wrote:
I realize that in general, keeping files in /tmp is rather dangerous. However, it seems that readhat/linux has generally left such files alone.It seems a number of valuable files I placed in /tmp got removed. I'm wondering what caused this? I don't see anything obvious in /etc/crond.d, nor is /etc/sysinit (system had been rebooted a couple of times). Any hint?
See: man tmpwatch /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch Paul.
