[SOLVED] odd subdirectories in /tmp

chexmix · 12-30-2012, 04:35 AM

Hi all,

I was looking for something in my /tmp directory and found a whole bunch of subdirectories with similar names and the same creation time:

Code:

drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccu4.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccu5.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccu6.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccu7.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccu8.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccu9.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccua.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccub.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccuc.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccud.tmp/
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<more of the same>

... they're all empty. I don't know anything about these ... are they perhaps something to be concerned about?

Thx,

Glenn

tuxbg · 12-30-2012, 04:45 AM

I dont know but i allso have strange files in /tmp one of them is this Yxx87nb.exe.rar ?
The other one is that

srwxr-xr-x 1 tux users 0 дек 30 01:46 0851FE1DDCCA1519F4932CCC1B57D58A4FB85E43.16.0.912.29_service_ipc
Ok i found that is from chromium бровсер-16.0.912.29

But the other one i dont know

brobr · 12-30-2012, 07:30 AM

Yip, I see these "lua"-kind of files quite often in /tmp. Probably related to a suspend/resume cycle. As they are empty I always delete them.

Habitual · 12-30-2012, 11:51 AM

Quote:

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Code:

drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccu4.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccu5.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccu6.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccu7.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccu8.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccu9.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccua.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccub.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccuc.tmp/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 20:47 lua3ccud.tmp/
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Glenn:

Running conky?

pataphysician · 12-30-2012, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tuxbg

I dont know but i allso have strange files in /tmp one of them is this Yxx87nb.exe.rar ?
The other one is that

Firefox will put files in /tmp sometimes while downloading if you have "Always ask me Where to save" they are random_name.filetype.part so I have many gibberish.exe.part from when I downloaded my GOG games to play in wine, I also have gibberish.iso.part and gibberish.gz.part probably for the same reason. I don't use chromium but maybe it uses rar as its tmp store of downloads? Or it could be a tmp file while some archiving program unrared a file?

chexmix · 12-30-2012, 01:19 PM

Aha!

It's LibreOffice Calc that's doing it. Whew. I ran 'file' on the latest .tmp file and got:

Code:

bash-4.2$ file !$
file lucdpeud.tmp
lucdpeud.tmp: OpenDocument Spreadsheet

Thanks for the tips, everyone. Marking as solved.