>> >On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:32:30PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> >> I have no idea what rogue process created this file. >> > > If it were me, I would create a script to notify me via email and text > message as soon as the file is created. that should give a hint as to what's > creating it, as I can think "what happened in the last 5 minutes?"
This is done a bit more elegantly with the Kernel file system daemon: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfsmd/ I wanted to know what was producing cruft in my home directory at one point, and I wrote up the process here: http://blog.ciscavate.org/2008/07/cracking-down-on-application-clutter-or-my-home-is-my-castle.html --Rogan > > I would put it in crontab and have it run once a minute. > > -wes > > -wes > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
