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Old 09-15-2001, 08:41 PM   #1
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what is a 'rot'?

Under RedHat 7.1, I have a weird thing in my root directory (/, not /root) called "rot". The file command says that it is gzip compressed data. It is 150k. Does anyone know what this is?
 
Old 09-16-2001, 12:40 AM   #2
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I looked around on google linux and rot appears to be an encryption and decryption program.
 
Old 09-16-2001, 02:03 AM   #3
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yes, I konw of the rot13 encryption scheme, but what is it doing in my root directory? it doesn't bother me too much, just wondering tho.
 
  


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