Bob Proulx wrote:
> Sthu Deus wrote:
> > I have a bunch of such files:
> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 2010-10-26 12:14 /tmp/tmp.VpjBPrFKtT
> >
> > What can these be? From whence they come?
> > It seems they are created every minute after some period of days.
>
> That is the default template name from the 'mktemp' command.
Oh and I forgot I was going to say look in your crontabs for a command
that runs every minute.
find /etc/cron* /var/spool/cron -type f -exec grep mktemp {} +
If the files are created every minute then I would suspect that there
is a task in one of those crontabs that is running every minute and is
behaving incorrectly. If the task calls a script and the mktemp is in
that other script then of course the grep above won't find it. But it
would be a good place to start.
Bob
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