[CentOS] Unknown Files in /tmp

Jim Wildman jim at rossberry.com
Sat Jan 28 15:01:41 UTC 2006


On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Mark Sargent wrote:

> This is all probably not related, but, I find it odd. What do you think? 
> I googled for info on the filenames, but, found nothing. Cheers.
> 

Of course /tmp is a scratch pad.  Here is what I would do
1) run rpm -Va | grep bin to see if any binaries have been changed
2) boot single user and wipe everything in /tmp
3) boot multi user and try various things, watching /tmp while you do
so.


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