On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Casper BodenCummins wrote: > /etc/passwd~ > Looks like a temp file. Can anyone shed some light on this?
passwd writes it out whenever something changes, just in case. > /usr/bin/[* > This is junk. Blow it away. Actually this is a link to test. POSIX.2 (?) mandates its existence for shells which don't provide it. It's listed in dpkg -L shellutils, btw. There must be a bug in your script which generated this list. > /dev/initctl| > /dev/printer= > /dev/xconsole| > Are there really these symbols on the end? He did an ls -F. > brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 84 Sep 2 19:42 /dev/fd* These were created by /usr/sbin/MAKEFLOPPIES when you installed fdutils. I would guess most of the other files are managed by the package's control scripts. Guy
