Unknown Files in /tmp

[powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp (Mark Sargent)]

Jim Wildman wrote:

>Of course /tmp is a scratch pad.  Here is what I would do
>1) run rpm -Va | grep bin to see if any binaries have been changed
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man, runs forever on my slow laptop. will post any abnormalities later

>2) boot single user and wipe everything in /tmp
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doing it whilst logged in as normal, I got them again, upon a restart. 
As single user is different?

>3) boot multi user and try various things, watching /tmp while you do
>so.
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will try this.

Cheers.

Mark Sargent