.profile disappears

[Bob Fraser]

Help:

I have a hp-ux 3440 that root's .profile in / keeps disappearing.

I recreate and I check a fews hours later and it is gone.....

Correct me if I am wrongs but teh .prfile file should be in the root directory correct?

I have change the permissions to 444.

What's goingin on?

Thanks in advance.

[Bill Hassell]

The .profile file goes into the HOME directory, so if root's HOME is /, then that's the correct location. Are you sure it's gone? The ls and ll commands will not show dot files like .profile unless you add the -a option.

A good alias for ls and ll is something like this:

alias ls='ls -a'
alias ll='ls -al'

Also, the default location for root's HOME directory should never be /. While virtually every Unix manufacturer has done this, it is the worst possible location. As a minimum, it should be moved to /root to prevent disasters like rm -rf *

[Bob Fraser]

Yep it's gone.

I have changed roots home directory to /home/root, will see what happens.

[Dennis Handly]

>root's .profile in / keeps disappearing.

What HP-UX version?  What is the modification date on /?  ll -d /

>the .profile file should be in the root directory correct?

The .profile goes into ~/.profile for each user.

>The ls and ll commands will not show dot files unless you add the -a option.

They will also show if you're explicit: ll ~/.profile

And -A will show them but without showing "." and "..".

[Bob Fraser]

>root's .profile in / keeps disappearing.

What HP-UX version?  What is the modification date on /?  ll -d /

>the .profile file should be in the root directory correct?

The .profile goes into ~/.profile for each user.

>The ls and ll commands will not show dot files unless you add the -a option.

They will also show if you're explicit: ll ~/.profile

And -A will show them but without showing "." and "..".

This is HP-UX appsvr B.11.11 U 9000/800.

# ll ~/.profile
/home/root/.profile not found

drwxr-xr-x   3 root       sys             96 Jun 23 12:08 .

Still disappearing.

[Dennis Handly]

>Still disappearing.

What is the modification date on ~?  ll -d ~

Unless you can narrow down the time frame to a specific crontab, you may have to enable auditing to log all file deletions.