Re: Undeletable files after kyua test runs

From: Gordon Bergling <gbe_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 21:08:56 +0200
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:58:47AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:32:38AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:26 AM Gordon Bergling <gbe_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > I recently stumbled across undeletable files that are generated by kyua
> > > > test runs,
> > > > for example
> > > >
> > > > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  0 May  9 13:10
> > > > /tmp/kyua.aB4q62/8676/work/fileforaudit
> > > >
> > > > I haven't yet identified the test that generate those files, but it is
> > > > impossible
> > > > to delete them. I have clear_tmp_enable="YES" set in the /etc/rc.conf, but
> > > > on every boot the system argues that these file aren't deletable.
> > > > I tried to 'rm -rf' them by hand but, even this wasn't possible. I have
> > > > looked for
> > > > any extend attributes, but I didn't find any.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone an idea how this is possible and may how these files can be
> > > > deleted?
> > > 
> > > Have you done 'ls -o' to check for flags like schg?
> > > --
> > > Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
> > > E-mail: rkoberman_at_gmail.com
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> > 
> > Argh, I haven't thought about chflags for quite some time. The chflags
> > bit was set and after an
> > 
> > # find /tmp/ -type f -exec chflags -R 0 {} \;
>                ^^Only files          ^^ meaningless when chflags is given ONLY files
> 
> You probably could of done:
> chflags -R 0 /tmp/

Okay, I am currently working on an update for clear_tmp_enable="YES" to include
a check like this. I would think that an rc option like this should delete 
everything in /tmp.
 
> > I was able to finally delete them.
> > 
> > Thanks for the fast respone,
> > 
> > Gordon

--Gordon
Received on Mon Jun 29 2020 - 17:08:58 UTC

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