conf/117753: Pediodic script 100.clean-disks cleans out some usefull *.core files

Anatoly Borodin fractalizator at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 19:30:01 PDT 2007


>Number:         117753
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       Pediodic script 100.clean-disks cleans out some usefull *.core files
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov 02 02:30:00 UTC 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Anatoly Borodin
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD fractal.home 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #0: Wed Oct 24 19:39:32 EEST 2007     root at fractal.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
The default value of the daily_clean_disks_files variable is sen in the /etc/defaults/periodic.conf as "[#,]* .#* a.out *.core *.CKP .emacs_[0-9]*", so 100.clean-disks removes all *.core files. However some software like lang/cmucl and lang/sbcl contains vitally important for their functionality *.files (for examlpe, /usr/local/lib/cmucl/lib/lisp.core), that are being removed daily.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install lang/sbcl or lang/cmucl and run daily periodic script with daily_clean_disks_enable="YES" set after daily_clean_disks_days=3 days.
>Fix:


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