Re: Random files

Scott McDermott (vaxerdec@frontiernet.net)
Tue, 24 Mar 1998 01:12:40 -0500


Mark Shapiro <mark@award.bios.net> on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:55:23PM -0500:
> Is there a way to tell if a currently running process created a file? Every
> few days I see a ton of files in /tmp named R[emqx]a#####, owned by root.root,
> size 0, mode 644.

You might want to look into `lsof' which is IMO a vital part of any
sysadmin's toolkit.

-- 
Scott

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