Re: strange file in /tmp

2010-10-31 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sunday 31 October 2010 08:02 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > | and from a remote host, > | > | $ cat image.png | ssh display > | > | The 2nd one although brought up an ImageMagick window, didn't display > | the image file both times. > > You might need to say "display -", not just "display". That

Re: strange file in /tmp

2010-10-31 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 30Oct2010 18:53, suvayu ali wrote: | On 30 October 2010 11:17, stan wrote: | > Easy way to check.  Delete the file (it is in /tmp, after all) and then | > run ImageMagick again on the same two files while watching /tmp. | | I tried those, doesn't seem to reproduce the file (or any file for |

Re: strange file in /tmp

2010-10-30 Thread suvayu ali
On 30 October 2010 11:17, stan wrote: > Easy way to check.  Delete the file (it is in /tmp, after all) and then > run ImageMagick again on the same two files while watching /tmp. I tried those, doesn't seem to reproduce the file (or any file for that matter). As far as I recall I tried two things

Re: strange file in /tmp

2010-10-30 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
suvayu ali wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was trying to clean my /tmp with tmpwatch and noticed a really large > file sitting there, and I have no clue what could have generated that. > Anyone has any ideas? > > $ lt /tmp/magick-XXWa5SP9.pam > -rw-rw-r--. 1 13G Oct 29 01:47 /tmp/magick-XXWa5SP9.p

Re: strange file in /tmp

2010-10-30 Thread stan
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:29:26 -0700 Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday 30 October 2010 08:28 AM, Mike Klinke wrote: > > > > Have you been using ImageMagick (convert, display) for image > > manipulation? It uses /tmp as a temporary location while processing > > images. > > > > Yes I use disp

Re: strange file in /tmp

2010-10-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, On Saturday 30 October 2010 08:28 AM, Mike Klinke wrote: > > Have you been using ImageMagick (convert, display) for image > manipulation? It uses /tmp as a temporary location while processing > images. > Yes I use display quite a bit and I was trying out compare yesterday, but that was with 2

strange file in /tmp

2010-10-29 Thread suvayu ali
Hi everyone, I was trying to clean my /tmp with tmpwatch and noticed a really large file sitting there, and I have no clue what could have generated that. Anyone has any ideas? $ lt /tmp/magick-XXWa5SP9.pam -rw-rw-r--. 1 13G Oct 29 01:47 /tmp/magick-XXWa5SP9.pam $ file /tmp/magick-XXWa5SP9.pam