On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Rogan Creswick <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >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 > > Nothing like posting the wrong answer to a list full of geeks :) to learn the right answer quickly... -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
