where is /1 coming from?

[Matthew Miller]

Someone on Reddit noted that there's a zero-length file named `1` in /
on their F25 system. I just looked on mine, and I have one too. It's
not owned by any RPM. And I checked on an F24 box, and it's got that
too. Anyone know where this is coming from?

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Neal Gompa]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  Someone on Reddit noted that there's a zero-length file named `1`
> in /
>  on their F25 system. I just looked on mine, and I have one too. It's
>  not owned by any RPM. And I checked on an F24 box, and it's got that
>  too. Anyone know where this is coming from?
>  
I believe it's gunk created by the Live ISO creation process. I've
seen it pop up from spinning ISOs using livecd-creator and
livemedia-creator. If you do an installation from netinstall or an install DVD,
the file isn't present.



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[Igor Gnatenko]

It was bug in binutils packaging. It's fixed.

-Igor Gnatenko

On Oct 12, 2016 3:04 PM, "Matthew Miller" <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
wrote:

>  Someone on Reddit noted that there's a zero-length file named `1`
> in /
>  on their F25 system. I just looked on mine, and I have one too. It's
>  not owned by any RPM. And I checked on an F24 box, and it's got that
>  too. Anyone know where this is coming from?
>
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[Chris Murphy]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Igor Gnatenko <ignatenk(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  It was bug in binutils packaging. It's fixed.
>
>  -Igor Gnatenko
>
>
>  On Oct 12, 2016 3:04 PM, "Matthew Miller" <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
> wrote:
> >
> > Someone on Reddit noted that there's a zero-length file named `1` in /
> > on their F25 system. I just looked on mine, and I have one too. It's
> > not owned by any RPM. And I checked on an F24 box, and it's got that
> > too. Anyone know where this is coming from?
> > 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383266


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Chris Murphy

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 07:15:39AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>  > It was bug in binutils packaging. It's fixed.
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383266 
Awesome. Thanks for the quick replies, Chris and Igor!

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:39:23AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 07:15:39AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>  > > It was bug in binutils packaging. It's fixed.
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383266
>  Awesome. Thanks for the quick replies, Chris and Igor! 
And Neal :)

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Joachim Backes]

On 10/12/16 15:03, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  Someone on Reddit noted that there's a zero-length file named `1`
> in /
>  on their F25 system. I just looked on mine, and I have one too. It's
>  not owned by any RPM. And I checked on an F24 box, and it's got that
>  too. Anyone know where this is coming from?
>  
Additionally I see a file called /null with zero length!

Kind regards

Joachim Backes

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http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/

[Björn "besser82" Esser]

Am 12.10.2016 um 16:36 schrieb Joachim Backes:
>  On 10/12/16 15:03, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Someone on Reddit noted that there's a zero-length file named `1` in /
> > on their F25 system. I just looked on mine, and I have one too. It's
> > not owned by any RPM. And I checked on an F24 box, and it's got that
> > too. Anyone know where this is coming from?
> >
>  Additionally I see a file called /null with zero length!
>
>  Kind regards
>
>  Joachim Backes
>  
Same finding (/null) for me, too.

Cheers
   Björn

Where is /null coming from [was Re: where is /1 coming from?]

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 04:39:18PM +0200, Björn Esser wrote:
>  >Additionally I see a file called /null with zero length!
>  Same finding (/null) for me, too. 
Yup. Okay, let's try this again. :)

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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader

Where is /null coming from [was Re: where is /1 coming from?]

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 10/13/2016 01:03 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 04:39:18PM +0200, Björn Esser wrote:
> >> Additionally I see a file called /null with zero length!
> > Same finding (/null) for me, too.
>
>  Yup. Okay, let's try this again. :)
>  
FWIW: It seems to be created at each boot.

Ralf

[Jaroslav Nahorny]

Hi,

Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; writes:

>  Someone on Reddit noted that there's a zero-length file named `1`
> in /
>  on their F25 system. I just looked on mine, and I have one too. It's
>  not owned by any RPM. And I checked on an F24 box, and it's got that
>  too. Anyone know where this is coming from? 
I see it's fixed now, and it's great. However, funny thing is, I
remember this file being created in root's $HOME (/root/1) around RHEL3
or RHEL4 (not sure if Fedora at that time had it too).

Sorry for off-topic :/

best regards,
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jaroslav