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OK I already know the answer to this one. (man fsck)
How exactly does one fsck it?
Is there a fsck for dummies?

uh, you misinterpreted my meaning :D

rephrasing: eff it, drive on...

the "rm: ./Mount01: is a directory" errors are due to brain damage somewhere, but, since those dirs are empty, it's not very interesting.

there are some other problems with the daily cleaner code...

Code:

if [ -d /var/tmp ]; then

    cd /var/tmp && {

    find . -fstype local ! -name . -atime +7 -ctime +3 -exec rm -f -- {} \;

    find -fstype local -d . ! -name . -type d -mtime +1 -exec rmdir -- {} \; \

        >/dev/null 2>&1; }

fi

that first find causes the rm errors on dirs. and the second find is just plain wrong...

$ /usr/bin/find -fstype local -d .
stype: -d: unknown option

even reduction doesn't help...

$ /usr/bin/find -fstype local .
stype: stype: No such file or directory
stype: local: No such file or directory
.
./3d84c825109b0
...

since the objective of the second find is to rmdir, i think it should read...

$ /usr/bin/find . -fstype local -type d ! -name . # and so on...
./mds
./Mount01
./Mount02
./Mount03
./Mount04
./vi.recover
./zBooterMnt

but, i'll just let her buck...

hmm, after looking at the tmp cleaner code, i thought that it is all brain damaged, so i hacked on it...

Code:

if [ -d /tmp ]; then

    cd /tmp && {



# bdd; 16sep02; attempt to fix this tripe

#   find . -fstype local -type f -atime +3 -ctime +3 -exec rm -f -- {} \;

#   find -fstype local -d . ! -name . -type d -mtime +1 -exec rmdir -- {} \; \

    

    find . -fstype local -type f -atime +3 -ctime +3 -exec rm -f -- {} \;  

    find . -fstype local -type d ! -name . -mtime +1 -exec rmdir -- {} \; \

        >/dev/null 2>&1; }

fi



if [ -d /var/tmp ]; then

    cd /var/tmp && {



# bdd; 16sep02; attempt to fix this tripe

#   find . -fstype local ! -name . -atime +7 -ctime +3 -exec rm -f -- {} \;   

#   find -fstype local -d . ! -name . -type d -mtime +1 -exec rmdir -- {} \; \

    

    find . -fstype local -type f -atime +7 -ctime +3 -exec rm -f -- {} \;  

    find . -fstype local -type d ! -name . -mtime +1 -exec rmdir -- {} \; \

        >/dev/null 2>&1; }

fi

i think that might begin to start to approach ever closer to almost the right thing.

if you mod your daily script, be sure to save the original distribution...

$ sudo cp -p /etc/periodic/daily/500.daily /etc/periodic/daily/500.daily.10.2.dist

well that seemed to get rid of the offending dirs...
I had considered changing the 'rm -f' part to 'rm -rf' but that probably would not have been a good idea.