Craig White wrote: > 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 > > Yeah, I do really, really want to know, to satisfy long-standing curiosity (and learn how the random number generator might serve me), but I will keep your suggestion on hold for the time being, in the hope that someone will be able to provide a direct answer to the identity of the program that created it. -- 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
