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shen

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Question on strange folder in /home

I noticed today that I had a folder in /home named pdf-document and have never seen that before. Interesting part is ownership was root:nobody and perms was 777 so anyone has r,w,x access to that folder. Anyways curious if anyone knows what package would have created this folder?

Cogar

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Registered: 2007-07-22

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Re: Question on strange folder in /home

FWIW, I have installed every package that comes with the "full" Arch Linux CD (duke), and nothing created such a folder. (Actually, I have never heard of any package creating such a folder in a /home directory in any distribution.)

mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

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Re: Question on strange folder in /home

If you think it might belong to a package, pacman -Qo /home/pdf-document would tell which one, and tell you if it doesn't belong to a package.

shen

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Re: Question on strange folder in /home

well pacman seems to think it can't determine ownership of a directory...

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Re: Question on strange folder in /home

is there a pdf-document user?
that would be very odd.

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skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: Question on strange folder in /home

well pacman seems to think it can't determine ownership of a directory...

The workaround I've seen suggested is to list all files and directories managed by pacman, then grep for the one you want:

pacman -Ql | grep ' /home/pdf-document'

shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: Question on strange folder in /home

well pacman seems to think it can't determine ownership of a directory...

The workaround I've seen suggested is to list all files and directories managed by pacman, then grep for the one you want:

pacman -Ql | grep ' /home/pdf-document'

I don't think that lists directories either.
What about :

find /var/lib/pacman/local/ -name files | xargs grep home/pdf-document/$

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