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Hi All, |
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I was checking my /tmp and noticed a rather large number of two different |
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types of files. By far the largest number (some hundreds of files) are of |
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the type: |
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prw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 23:13 sh-np-1151622697 |
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prw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 17:44 sh-np-1151623392 |
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prw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 17:44 sh-np-1151623817 |
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prw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 23:13 sh-np-1151630251 |
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prw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 19:41 sh-np-1151630339 |
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prw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 1 01:14 sh-np-1151697722 |
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prw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 30 21:28 sh-np-1151698413 |
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Are these some process calls that were cought in the /tmp when perhaps the |
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machine crashed some time in the past, or when I might have shutdown with |
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screen session(s) running in the background - I occasionally forget the odd |
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screen session and since I don't get some system alert I invariably shutdown. |
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8-/ However, there's far too many of them and their atimes seem rather |
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regular. Can/should I delete them? |
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Second largest occurrence I noticed (around 130 dir) is like this: |
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drwx------ 2 michael users 80 Jul 19 08:51 gpg-pYdYc1 |
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drwx------ 2 michael users 80 Jul 19 06:59 gpg-pgQnty |
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drwx------ 2 michael users 80 Apr 24 07:51 gpg-qHHiXP |
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drwx------ 2 michael users 80 Jul 15 00:34 gpg-qT7BVZ |
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drwx------ 2 michael users 80 Jul 10 21:36 gpg-qcGu33 |
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drwx------ 2 michael users 80 May 1 12:18 gpg-rqoxKq |
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drwx------ 2 michael users 80 Jul 10 20:28 gpg-sefR85 |
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Not sure why there are so many of these there. I assume these are created |
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when gpg-agent is launched and sets the ENV variable? Each one of them has a |
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file like this in it: |
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# ls -la /tmp/gpg-VLQYJv |
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total 159 |
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drwx------ 2 michael users 80 Jul 8 12:31 . |
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drwxrwxrwt 156 root root 162528 Jul 22 23:12 .. |
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srwxr-xr-x 1 michael users 0 Jul 8 12:31 S.gpg-agent |
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Are these beign created by some error in my set up? Shouldn't they be deleted |
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when the gpg-agent exits, when I exit X? Can/should I remove them? If |
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either of these are because of some system configuration error could you |
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please make some suggestions for troubleshooting or fixing it? Let me know |
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if you need more info. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |