On 9. 10. 2015 at 03:54:51, Bond Masuda wrote: > hello, > > i'm working on a file monitoring system and I'm noticing files like the > following example being created and then disappearing: > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Zurich;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Bratislava;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Prague;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Belgrade;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Ljubljana;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Podgorica;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Sarajevo;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Skopje;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Zagreb;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Belfast;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Guernsey;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Isle_of_Man;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Jersey;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/London;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/GB;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/GB-Eire;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Etc/UTC;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Etc/Universal;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Etc/Zulu;56177f7a > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/UTC;56177f7a > > The sample above happened during a tzdata package update. Does rpm > create these files and then moves them to destination (over the old file > during an update)? Or, does it move the old file to files in the format > above and then deletes them when the new file install is completed? If > so, how does it determine the "suffix" string, like ";56177f7a" in the > above samples? Is it randomly generated? What's the nature of this > suffix string? Is it always 8 characters wide? it seems to allow for > alphanumeric characters, but does that include capital letters? Are any > other characters allowed in the suffix string? > > If I can understand this better, I can write rules to categorize them as > being part of some RPM activity. Just need to understand what they are, > and what kind of patterns I can look for. > > Thanks, > Bond Hi Bond, this has nothing to do with rpm itself, it's the package which is creating these files in its %post script. You should direct your question at the maintainer of that package in your distro. Thanks Jan _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
