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Re: Error files in /



On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:17:13PM +0800, Michael C. Alonzo wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:46:57PM -0500, 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?
> I had the same problem about a month ago. what i did was to delete
> 2.2.19 and use 2.4.7 (only one kernel).

It looks like whenever I reboot 2.4 kernel with initrd, these files are
created anew.  Messy but looks harmless.  I erase them after reboot
manually everytime I reboot or keep it there.

Some kind of TEMPORARY FILE, IT SEEMS.

Cheers :-)

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