Subject: Re: Huge unexpected file/dir deletions without user intervention
From: Robert Bell (rbell@tv.rsc.raytheon.com)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 12:29:21 EDT
Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
>It happened, that huge amounts of data got
> deleted several times without reason!
...
> The concerned
> users swear, they haven't triggered it, and didn't notice any
> suspicious behavior.
...
> Does anybody suffered from those problems here?
Yes
>
> Does somebody has some explanation for this effect?
>
I have seem this behavior when I was trying to get the
Network Trash Folder to work.
I never figured out why,
but someone unrelated to the files would have a folder in their trash can.
If they did not pay attention when they emptied their trash can,
it could delete a lot of files when they personally only put a couple
of files (from a different folder) in the trash.
One user noticed that it was taking a long time to empty the network
trash can, and stopped it. When we looked into their trash,
there was someone else's home folder in it.
That is when I changed the permissions on the "Network Trash Folder"
so that no files would go in it, and the user would get the message
when they deleted a file that it would get deleted immediately.
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