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.
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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
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.