Unix Administration Horror Stories (1993)

Re:Unix Administration Horror Stories (1993) by nailer on Thursday September 03, 2015 @09:35AM (#10164826)

My own horror story: I mounted an NFS share to /tmp while working, and forgot to unmount it later.

Think about it.

Keep thinking about it.

Still keep thinking about it.

Still not sure why that's dangerous?

Give up?

tmpwatch removes files from /tmp with a modification time over a certain amount of days.

I owned up, but a colleague swore he had evidence to prove it wasn't me, even though I was sure it was.

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Re:Unix Administration Horror Stories (1993) by e1ven on Thursday September 03, 2015 @02:52PM (#10166822)

Sorry to hear it! Did you mount it to /tmp directly, or a subdirectory under /tmp? The reason I ask is the manpage says that tmpreaper should not switch filesystems, so I would think it shouldn't ever descend to /tmp/mountpoint :/

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Re:Unix Administration Horror Stories (1993) by nailer on Thursday September 03, 2015 @07:02PM (#10168001)

/tmp/mountpoint. IIRC it was tmpwatch ON RHEL 4.

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