RE: files without package
On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Casper BodenCummins wrote:
> /etc/passwd~
> Looks like a temp file. Can anyone shed some light on this?
passwd writes it out whenever something changes, just in case.
> /usr/bin/[*
> This is junk. Blow it away.
Actually this is a link to test. POSIX.2 (?) mandates its existence
for shells which don't provide it. It's listed in dpkg -L shellutils,
btw. There must be a bug in your script which generated this list.
> /dev/initctl|
> /dev/printer=
> /dev/xconsole|
> Are there really these symbols on the end?
He did an ls -F.
> brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 84 Sep 2 19:42 /dev/fd*
These were created by /usr/sbin/MAKEFLOPPIES when you installed
fdutils.
I would guess most of the other files are managed by the package's
control scripts.
Guy
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