.rnd

[Petrus de Calguarium]

Craig White wrote:

> 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.
> ----
> 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
> 
> 

Yeah, I do really, really want to know, to satisfy long-standing curiosity 
(and learn how the random number generator might serve me), but I will keep 
your suggestion on hold for the time being, in the hope that someone will be 
able to provide a direct answer to the identity of the program that created 
it.