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
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