On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 7:12 AM Matti Pulkkinen <mkjpul@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Something keeps creating a file, Events.json, in my home directory. It
> only ever contains an empty JSON array, but if I remove the file,
> something just creates it again. Has anyone seen this before? What
> program could be behind this? This only started happening after I
> installed Fedora 37 Workstation, and never happened to me before on
> Fedora 36.
If you can't figure this out otherwise, here's a heavyweight solution.
Install the systemtap package. Run "sudo stap-prep". Put this in a
file named, say, events.stp, and replace "<username>" with your actual
username:
```
probe vfs.open
{
if (pathname == "/home/<username>/events.json")
printf("events.json created by %s (pid %d, uid %d)\n", execname(),
pid(), uid())
}
```
That's crude, because it doesn't check that the file is opened in
create mode, but it will do for your case. Delete events.json, then
run "sudo stap events.stp". Come back later and see if it has printed
anything. If I run "touch events.json" in another shell, for example,
it prints:
events.json created by touch (pid 39957, uid 1000)
Press Ctrl-C to exit from stap when you are done.
--
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/
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