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Re: Off-Topic -- Strange files



on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:01:18PM -0500, Hall Stevenson (hallstevenson@mindspring.com) wrote:
> I've seen mention of something similar before and I believe it's related
> to ext3, but I'll ask to be sure...
> 
> In my / dir, I've got these files:
> 
> -rw-------    1 root     root            0 Nov  3 17:02 errs7NW6Z9
> -rw-------    1 root     root            0 Nov  3 17:04 errsdZrjcJ
> -rw-------    1 root     root            0 Nov  3 17:01 errsiC9TId
> -rw-------    1 root     root            0 Nov  3 12:55 errssdVYeJ
> -rw-------    1 root     root            0 Nov  3 11:17 errstPArtw
> 
> What are they ?? Being zero length, those are *usually* safe to delete,
> right ?? 

These are spawn of some misconfigured package or another.  Which, I'm
not sure, but they've been mentioned in archives.

They may, AFAIK, be safely deleted.  Annoying though.

Peace.

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