Re: Error files in /
Jeremy wrote:
>
> I'm running into a strange occurance. I evidentally have something that is
> creating error files in my / directory. They're usually named something
> like "errs9vkVeD" or "errskFcjY", always beginning with "errs", ending in a
> seeming random sequence of numbers, and they're all zero bytes. Has anyone
> seen this before?
>
> If it helps, I'm running kernel 2.4.9, X 4.1.0, and the programs I use
> frequently are RXVT, XMMS, Emacs, and Mozilla. (although I've never noticed
> the files popping up during any particular time or when any particular
> program is run. It seems very random, but frequent)
I think I had similar problem before but once I deleted files it never
occured again.
however, I have similar problem of having some data in / that I have
no idea how they got there (they all have same date). All of them have
http://goldpasstoday.real.com in them and the date is the same as
realplayer install directory so I guess they were created by realplayer
install script. Most of them look like pieces of httm pages:
------------------------------------------ cut here
...Dchttp://goldpasstoday.real.com//issues/01/05/04/1/home/clickthru_.rt....8B.:
...:........I...text/vnd.rn-realtext............................................
.......Cache-Control....max-age=86400.....Content-type....text/vnd.rn-realtext..
...Date....Fri, 04 May 2001 05:49:07 GMT....Last-Modified....Thu, 03 May
2001 18
:40:07
GMT....Accept-Ranges....bytes.....Server....Roxen.Challenger/1.3.120....
Connection....close.....MIME-Version....1.0.....Content-length....441...........
......
------------------------------------------ cut here
here's the directory structure:
jojda:/>l -R /cache_db/
/cache_db/:
total 3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 3 22:46 c_data
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 3 22:46 c_header
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 3 22:48 c_usage
/cache_db/c_data:
total 26
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 517 May 3 22:46 15FFFDB1.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2308 May 3 22:46 2266FD55.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1274 May 3 22:46 5D34AA88.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12447 May 3 22:46 6EE860A9.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169 May 3 22:46 8A940FBA.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 882 May 3 22:46 8AADFD05.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1168 May 3 22:46 C355D389.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 377 May 3 22:46 F6114C90.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49 May 3 22:46 db.dat
/cache_db/c_header:
total 9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 489 May 3 22:46 15FFFDB1.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 490 May 3 22:46 2266FD55.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 487 May 3 22:46 5D34AA88.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 508 May 3 22:46 6EE860A9.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 784 May 3 22:46 8A940FBA.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 487 May 3 22:46 8AADFD05.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 489 May 3 22:46 C355D389.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 489 May 3 22:46 F6114C90.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49 May 3 22:46 db.dat
/cache_db/c_usage:
total 9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100 May 3 22:48 15FFFDB1.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100 May 3 22:48 2266FD55.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97 May 3 22:48 5D34AA88.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106 May 3 22:48 6EE860A9.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 98 May 3 22:48 8A940FBA.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 98 May 3 22:48 8AADFD05.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99 May 3 22:48 C355D389.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100 May 3 22:48 F6114C90.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49 May 3 22:46 db.dat
any ideas? TIA.
erik
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