directory disappears

[Gary_O]

Have had an atjob working fine for years. Since end of March, the job seems to run (see it in cron log), yet in the morning, the output, and the directory that holds it are not there.

Saw this happen. Scheduled report. Saw the directory and output. Went back (with in a few minutes), and both the output and its directory were GONE. I was the only one on the machine.

[Naveej.K.A]

something like this in your script??

cd /directory1/
cd dir2
cd dir3
rm -rf *

and the one amond dir3 doesn't exist and dir3 gets removed???

regds
Naveej

[nibble]

mind to display the script in your at? there might be a command that deleted em automatically

[Jeroen Peereboom]

Any other job scheduled a few minutes later?

JP

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

at job? Do you manually create it all the times or are you talking about a crontab job?
Could you post the script as attachment?

greetings,

Michael

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Hi Ling,

Post your script if possible.

It may help in understanding what caused the removal of the directories.

The command which might has removed is "rm -rf .
Check for this in the script or some other script which might have executed during that time.

[Bruno Ganino]

Ling, Hi to you.
If you have script for purge files or directory automatically.
Check rm or mv commands.
Bruno

[Mark Greene_1]

If you have auditing on your system active, set it to track file and directory deletion and then watch the logs. Alternatively you can get lsof

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.70

and run it in the background starting just prior to when the job in question runs and then let it go 5-10 minutes, routing the output to a file.

Either method should point you to the process removing the file and directory.

mark