On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 15:28 -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > There is a file in my home directory called .rnd. I presume it is the seed for > a random number generator. What program creates/uses it? I ran yum provides > */.rnd and nothing at all turned up. ---- yum only would know of files installed by yum packages themselves and never really knows about user generated files so it's hardly surprising that yum is in the dark about the origin of this file. If you really, really want to know, which program, then you could try this... mv ~/.rnd ~/.rnd-bak # moves the rnd file touch ~/.rnd # creates 0 length file chattr +i ~/.rnd # sets immutable bit and hope that whichever program that uses this file complains loudly and you can change this back by... chattr -i ~/.rnd rm ~/.rnd mv ~/.rnd-bak ~/.rnd Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
