Re: strange file

[Virginie-ML <virginieml@free.fr>]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 03:00:10PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:54:19PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Virginie-ML wrote:
> > > I've found a curious hidden file at the root of my system:
> > > It looks like an esound thing but its content is very strange for me and
> > > I don't like the _auth in its name... 
> > It's a cookie used by esound to authorize clients to connect to a
> > running esd process. Especially usefull if you want to use a remote
> > esd.
> Shouldn't such a cookie be in /var/state, /var/run or at least /tmp?
> I really wouldn't like such a think in my *root*!

I don't :)
Especially when I don't use esound...


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