Well you're right: 12K -rw------- 1 root root 64M Feb 29 20:28 session_mm_apache0.mem
it's about 12K. That raises another question, though. If the file had been, e.g., marked "s" in the listing, I would never have bothered to note it. What kind of file is this that is considered a normal file, yet has such different sizes? ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, William R. Gomeringer wrote: > I believe that file is quite normal and part of how apache "works." Try 'ls > -hsl' in the /tmp directory to see if the file is actually 67MB, I believe > you'll find it's only about 1KB. Just a guess. Of course I may be completely > wrong. > > William > > On Tuesday 02 March 2004 10:37 am, J Hays wrote: > > Andrew Perrin wrote: > > > Anybody know what the above file is? I haven't seen it before, but it's > > > there now, and is about 67MB! > > > > > > ap > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin > > > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu > > > > I don't know but I'll take a guess that it's some kind of core > > dump, judging by the size (does your machine perchance hold 64 MB > > of RAM) and the 'mem' at the end of the filename. > > > > Jonathan > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
