Do you have some kind of backup, sync, or versioning application running? On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, 22:01 Greg Marks <gtma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On a computer running Debian 10, in a number of directories a > subdirectory "history" has mysteriously appeared containing a > file history.db. There are 11 of these history.db files in various > places in my home directory; cmp reveals that they are all identical. > Each is an "SQLite 3.x database, last written using SQLite version > 3027002." Each is a 12288-byte file containing, in addition to a > bunch of special characters, the words: "tableversionversionCREATE > TABLE version ( version VARCHAR NOT NULL, datfile VARCHAR UNIQUE NOT > NULL)-Andexsqlite_autoindex_version_1version." In some (but not all) > cases the timestamp on history/history.db matches the timestamp of some > file I was editing with vim 8.1.1401 in the same directory containing the > history subdirectory--for whatever that's worth--but I can't reproduce > the phenomenon by editing similar files with vim. All history/history.db > files appeared since upgrading from Debian 9. I couldn't find anything > relevant in the log files around the timestamps of the mystery files. > > Does anyone know what might be causing this? As far as I can tell it's > harmless, but it is a bit disquieting when files start appearing that > I didn't intentionally create. > > Regards, > Greg Marks >
