On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:11:18AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > In the last week I have twice rebooted, and each time my .mailfilterrc > AND its backup in an RCS directory have disappeared. Does anyone have > any ideas what could be causing this truly bizarre behavior? > > I know the file was there because a) I checked and b) mailfilter ran > fine before the reboot. > > I run mailfilter from the preconnect of fetchmail. fetchmail is > invoked by the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail script. It runs as user > fetchmail. > > The file is in /var/run/fetchmail/.mailfilterrc with RCS in > /var/run/fetchmail/RCS/. Thr RCS directory itself does survive the reboot. > The files clearly survive having the ppp connection closed down and > restarted (that is, once I get them in place). > > /var is a Reiser file system on an LVM volume in an EVMS container. I > noticed no error messages on boot up, nor do I see any in the log > (though the log has fewer messages than showed on the screen). Have you clocked this message: Clearing: /tmp /var/lock /var/run. /var/run is not a place to put things that you want to survive a reboot... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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