On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:04:52PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > On my 5.3-STABLE systems I have a directory in /var called backups. A > view of man hier says: > > backups/ miscellaneous backup files > > with files like: > > aliases.bak > aliases.bak2 > group.bak > group.bak2 > master.passwd.bak > master.passwd.bak2 > > I'm curious, what process are writing these files to this directory?
periodic daily is at work here. --->$ find /etc/periodic -name '*backup*' /etc/periodic/daily/200.backup-passwd /etc/periodic/daily/210.backup-aliases > Does something depend on these files existing? Potentially, your ability to recover your system should any of the files backed up become corrupted or compromised. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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