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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Files disappearing from /users/home Post 302506764 by taherkf on Monday 21st of March 2011 10:49:35 PM
Old 03-21-2011
Files disappearing from /users/home
We have seen an issue whereby every morning around the same time , we see files being deleted from /users/$userid .

We have many crons and processes running across 40+ different servers .
Possibly some rogue process is doing this .

How can one isolate the process removing stuff from the users home .

The users home is mounted from all the 40 machines : Thus which machine is running the rogue process ( and what that is ) is the challenge to figure out .

All machines are Linux boxes .

Any pointers to audit scripts/tools would be appreciated .
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

rwho

RWHO(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   RWHO(1)

NAME

     rwho -- who is logged in on local machines

SYNOPSIS

     rwho [-aHq]

DESCRIPTION

     The rwho command produces output similar to who(1), but for all machines on the local network.  If no report has been received from a machine
     for 11 minutes then rwho assumes the machine is down, and does not report the users last known to be logged into that machine.

     If a user hasn't typed to the system for a minute or more, then rwho reports this idle time.

     -a 	 Include all users.  By default, if a user hasn't typed to the system for an hour or more, then the user will be omitted from the
		 output.

     -H 	 Write column headings above the regular output.

     -q 	 ``Quick mode'': List only the names and the number of users currently logged on.  When this option is used, all other options are
		 ignored.

FILES

     /var/rwho/whod.*  information about other machines

SEE ALSO

     finger(1), rup(1), ruptime(1), rusers(1), who(1), rwhod(8)

HISTORY

     The rwho command appeared in 4.3BSD.

BUGS

     This is unwieldy when the number of machines on the local net is large.

BSD
								September 30, 2005							       BSD
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