Re: keys file disapearing

[Jim Wildman]

As a general rule, don't put anything under /var that must survive
a) a reboot
b) a system upgrade

It is for stuff that VARies a lot.

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Jim Wildman, CISSP                                      jim@rossberry.com
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:

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> On 10 Apr, Benjamin Herbert wrote:
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> > Im am running cfengine1.5.4-5 (rpm) on a redhat 7.2 machine.  I built a
> > keys file in /var/run/cfengine so I could use secure=true.  It works fine
> > until I reboot the machine.  When I look in /var/run/cfengine to inspect
> > the keys file it's gone.  Something is deleting the contents of this
> > directory when I reboot.  Does anybody have any information about this or
> > has anybody had the same experience?  Any info would be appreciated.