Re: soft link disappears


Subject: Re: soft link disappears
bryan@ak.net
Date: Sun Jun 16 2002 - 13:38:28 AKDT


On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 12:05:59PM -0800, Buddha <buddha@gci.net> wrote:
>
> The mysql.sock file is actually in /tmp so I have the two linked with the
> command: ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/lib/mysql/mysql/mysql.sock
>
> Well, this link seems to disapper every once in a while which causes the
> cron messages. Anyone have a clue why it just goes away?

Yup. You probably have another cron job that goes through /tmp
and deletes old stuff every once in a while. I unfortunately
discovered that redhat has such a job after storing many megabytes
of files in my /tmp directory. Check your crontabs.

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Bryan Medsker
bryan@ak.net

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