The cmucl port contains a file /usr/local/lib/cmucl/lib/lisp.core which /etc/periodic/daily/100.clean-disks will remove. Fix: The file definitions for 100.clean-disks needs modification. Do you exclude .core files or restrict them somehow? How-To-Repeat: Install the port and enable 100.clean-disks. The file will be deleted after 3 days.
The cmucl port maintainer has agreed to address this problem. He will probably rename the offending file but there is a chance that this could affect another package at sometime in the future. Regards, Neil Darlow M.Sc. -- ICQ: 135505456 E-Mail, Jabber, MSNM: see following GPG identity 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow <neil @ darlow.co.uk> Key fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048
The port is not at fault. Quite to the contrary - 100.clean-disks is a terrible idea, as it has no way of knowing that the files it deletes are truly dross, and not something a developer has spent hours trying to provoke so she can analyze it first thing Monday morning. If disk space is really at a premium, use quotas. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
I would agree with DES: 100.clean-disks is a terrible idea. Anyway, I would suggest the following patch. It sets daily_clean_disks_files to "", so that it will be sysadmin business to choose which files are to be removed. --- periodic.conf.orig Tue Mar 29 17:38:40 2005 +++ periodic.conf Tue Mar 29 17:39:09 2005 @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ # 100.clean-disks daily_clean_disks_enable="NO" # Delete files daily -daily_clean_disks_files="[#,]* .#* a.out *.core *.CKP .emacs_[0-9]*" +daily_clean_disks_files="" daily_clean_disks_days=3 # If older than this daily_clean_disks_verbose="YES" # Mention files deleted Best Regards -- Rionda aka Matteo Riondato Disinformato per default G.U.F.I. Staff Member (http://www.gufi.org) FreeSBIE Developer (http://www.freesbie.org)
State Changed From-To: open->closed 100.clean-disks is disabled by default, and the user needs to configure /etc/periodic.conf before it can be used.