.rnd

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 15:28 -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> There is a file in my home directory called .rnd. I presume it is the seed for 
> a random number generator. What program creates/uses it? I ran yum provides 
> */.rnd and nothing at all turned up.
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yum only would know of files installed by yum packages themselves and
never really knows about user generated files so it's hardly surprising
that yum is in the dark about the origin of this file.

If you really, really want to know, which program, then you could try
this...

mv ~/.rnd ~/.rnd-bak # moves the rnd file
touch ~/.rnd     # creates 0 length file
chattr +i ~/.rnd # sets immutable bit

and hope that whichever program that uses this file complains loudly

and you can change this back by...

chattr -i ~/.rnd
rm ~/.rnd
mv ~/.rnd-bak ~/.rnd

Craig


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