Where did this /weird directory come from?

clarence · 2007-07-25 12:50:12

Hello.

I just found an empty directory

/weird

created and owned by root. I didn't create it and I'm the only person using this computer. Err, should I be concerned by this?

shamrok · 2007-07-25 13:20:22

One of packages created this, don't remeber now which one.

slubman · 2007-07-25 13:38:42

You can try this to find which package it's come from.:

# pacman -Ql | grep '/weird'

If it's really created when the programs run, then, no luck this command is no help.

P.S: Be warned, long and CPU, disk consuming command.

Last edited by slubman (2007-07-25 13:40:17)

bwalk · 2007-07-25 15:50:57

slubman wrote:

P.S: Be warned, long and CPU, disk consuming command.

Right, why no

pacman -Qo /weird

instead?

Cerebral · 2007-07-25 15:53:19

-Qo doesn't always work consistently (never works?) with directories.

Snowman · 2007-07-25 19:27:32

This directory was probably created by a pkg of a mono app (for a list: grep -r weird /var/abs/ ). It shouldn't be included in the package. You can safely removed it. If you find which package created it, let us know.

clarence · 2007-07-26 12:30:07

(As per Snowmans tip - big pat on the belly to you Mr Snowman) According to the pacman log and the directory creation date, the offender in this case was the malevolent mono-tools.

Also gettext-mono and autopano-sift PKGBUILDs both contain the line ( mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/weird ) as well.

Cheers

Arch Linux

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