On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 08:49:22PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 13:48:59 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > Lately,I've been noticing a strange directory popping up in my home > > directory. It's called "file:" and has subdirectories of home , > > home/frank , and Desktop with Desktop empty. > > I have deleted it several times but it keeps re-appearing. > > > > Can anyone explain this ? > > The name "file:" reminds me of how file managers sometimes refer to > local files in their address/location bar. Some application might > misunderstand expressions such as "file:///home/frank/Desktop" and > therefore create spurious directories and files in your home directory. > > You could try to catch processes that access these directories/files > with lsof or fuser, maybe in combination with inotify-wait (package > inotify-tools). > > -- > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian | > I was thinking a cron script that does 'ls $FILENAME' every 15 minutes and appends the result in a log file. then maybe add a log of 'ps -A f' when you figure what hour it appears to see what is running. -K -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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