Disappearing files from uucppublic

[Michael P. Deignan]

steve at nshore.uucp (Stephen J. Walick) writes:

>Thanks to anyone who can give an answer to this mystery.  Am running
>SCO-Xenix 2.3.3 on an i386 and files "copied" ( copy -om [fn] [dir] )
>to the < /usr/spool/uucppublic > directory are disappearing from that
>directory sometime during the night (I think).  Files downloaded "to"
>that directory remain there, but *only* the files copied from other
>filesystems seem to mysteriously disappear.  I'm suspecting it might
>have something to do with the < ~/uudemon.clean > file (which "should"
>only clean the < ~/uucp > directory), but have not determined that as
>a definite fact.  I cannot determine the exact time of the deletions,
>why they are occurring or how to avoid the problem.

There is a sequence of lines in /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.clean which looks
like:
 
find $PUBDIR -mtime 30 .... rm ....

*That* line deletes files from /usr/spool/uucppublic. I found this out the
hard way when 75% of our XENIX archives mysteriously disappeared overnite,
and anonymous UUCP callers kept getting "PERMISSION DENIED" error messages.


>I have created an endless loop script to check on the existance of
>the files in < ~/uucppublic > and to copy them back if they disappear,
>but *that* should not be necessary at all.

Seems like a large waste of resources. Editing uudemon.clean has eliminated
*all* of our problems with disappearing files.

MD
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