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Cadeyrn

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Registered: 2013-04-06

Posts: 170

[SOLVED] null file appearing in home folder

This is dumb. About every 2 seconds, a file called "null" appears in my home folder. It's completely empty. If I delete it, another one pops up again. I'm aware that some program somewhere is probaby trying to use /dev/null and going to ~/null instead, but it's weird, because I haven't changed anything about my system besides installing one package that I've now uninstalled. Said package is pev over in the AUR, and it didn't actually install anything at all (pacman -Ql gave me a bunch of directories that I already had).

I remember having this problem way back in Ubuntu once, and it turned out that lots of people had it and it was the same program for everyone being weird, but I don't remember what that program was. I've even tried using lsof and grep, but I'm somehow getting nothing there, whether it's lsof | grep null, lsof | grep /home/jimi/null, lsof | grep ~/null, or lsof | grep null | grep -v /dev/null.

Last edited by Cadeyrn (2014-06-17 15:55:47)

samiam

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Registered: 2010-08-20

Posts: 58

Re: [SOLVED] null file appearing in home folder

Perhaps this? It sounds exactly like what you describe.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130152

Cadeyrn

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Registered: 2013-04-06

Posts: 170

Re: [SOLVED] null file appearing in home folder

Ha, there we go. That's exactly what it is now and what it was last time (I stopped using the script for a while and then downloaded it again a few days ago). Thanks.

Last edited by Cadeyrn (2014-06-17 15:54:59)