Re: Re: history/history.db files appearing

2020-09-04 Thread Humberto Massa
The culprit is MAME (mame_0.206+dfsg.1-1 in my buster machine). I deleted the directory, ran MAME thru the menu and voila, it showed up again. changing .mame/io.ini so that the key historypath starts with .mame/ is enough to make the problem disappear for me. HTH, -- []s; Massa⠠⠵ via GMail Inbo

Re: history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-10 Thread Greg Marks
Thank you, David, Judah Richardson, and Richard Hector, for your suggestions; unfortunately, the appearance of the history.db files remains a mystery. > Do you have some kind of backup, sync, or versioning application > running? I have a daily cron job that runs rsync to copy my home directory to

Re: history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 09 Aug 2019 at 14:53:32 (-0500), Greg Marks 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

Re: history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-10 Thread Richard Hector
On 10/08/19 7:53 AM, Greg Marks 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 i

Re: history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 10/8/19 1:32 pm, David wrote: > I don't know the answer, but you might find some clues here: > https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=history.db&literal=1 Note > the list of package names at the top of the page. Why is it not accessible vi

Re: history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-09 Thread Judah Richardson
Do you have some kind of backup, sync, or versioning application running? On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, 22:01 Greg Marks 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

Re: history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-09 Thread David
On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 13:01, Greg Marks wrote: > > On a computer running Debian 10, in a number of directories a > subdirectory "history" has mysteriously appeared containing a > file history.db. [...] > Does anyone know what might be causing this? I don't know the answer, but you might find som

history/history.db files appearing

2019-08-09 Thread Greg Marks
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