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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Files disappearing from /users/home Post 302507013 by taherkf on Tuesday 22nd of March 2011 02:06:53 PM
Old 03-22-2011
[Jim] We have all our crons run from the same userid , and its this userids home which is seeing strange removal . We also see this early in the morning around 6:00 : meaning we have a 10 minute suspect window . We are going to log 'ps -ef' in a loop for 10 minutes on a few servers where we have most of our crons to locate the process .
Thanks for the inotify tool .

[Methyl] I guess there is an automounter used to mount the users home ( we have 40+ machines ) .
Many files disappear : what hits us the ssh , and bin/prompt : We have many tools run with this userid ( and many ssh'es to our several servers which are impacted by this )
We have looked at the crons but dont see a suspect . As mentioned above , we are now going to look at raw ps output in that 10 minute window .

I was hoping that there would be some way to monitor a directory to such an extent that one could know what process ( and from which host its run ) does something to a directory ??
( We know the userid ,the directory and we know the approx timeframe - need to find the process and machine )
 

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users-admin(1)							   User Commands						    users-admin(1)

NAME
users-admin - Configure local users and groups on the system. SYNOPSIS
users-admin [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
users-admin enables the user to configure the local users and groups on the system. I also provides the ability to assign RBAC profiles to a user. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more informa- tion. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Running the main application. example% users-admin EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/users-admin Executable for users and groups configuration. /var/spool/setup-tool-backends/data/users Where user template configurations are stored. /var/spool/setup-tool-backends/backup/users Backup directory for files that are modified. /var/run/setup-tool-backends/debug/users Debug logs can be found under here. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-system-tools | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Uncommitted | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. time-admin(1), shares-admin(1), services-admin(1), network-admin(1), gnome-std-options(5), useradd(1M), usermod(1M), groupadd(1M), group- mod(1M), passwd(4), shadow(4), group(4), attributes(5) NOTES
YP/NIS, NIS+ and LDAP users should be aware that it's possible to have conflict with users configured in here with the result that an error will occur. You should ensure that local user's home accounts are located on local filesystems - e.g. creating a new entry in /home when it's mounted with automount will not work and as such the user may not be created. Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006. SunOS 5.11 6 Nov 2006 users-admin(1)
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