var socket in random directories
Chris Rees
utisoft at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 2 15:11:42 UTC 2009
2009/6/2 Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573 at gmx.com>:
> Chris Rees wrote:
>>
>> OK, so does anyone know why I get a socket called 'var' randomly
>> appearing in directories?
>>
>> I always use ls -F, and it turns up as var=, as can be seen in my
>> ports directory.
>>
>> [chris at amnesiac]~% cd /usr/ports/
>> [chris at amnesiac]/usr/ports% ls
>> CHANGES arabic/ finance/ multimedia/ textproc/
>> COPYRIGHT archivers/ french/ net/ ukrainian/
>> GIDs astro/ ftp/ net-im/ var=
>> INDEX-7 audio/ games/ net-mgmt/
>> vietnamese/
>> INDEX-7.bz2 benchmarks/ german/ net-p2p/ www/
>> INDEX-7.db biology/ graphics/ news/ x11/
>> KNOBS cad/ hebrew/ packages/
>> x11-clocks/
>> LEGAL chinese/ hungarian/ palm/
>> x11-drivers/
>> MOVED comms/ irc/ polish/ x11-fm/
>> Makefile converters/ japanese/ ports-mgmt/ x11-fonts/
>> Mk/ databases/ java/ portuguese/
>> x11-servers/
>> README deskutils/ korean/ print/
>> x11-themes/
>> Templates/ devel/ lang/ russian/
>> x11-toolkits/
>> Tools/ distfiles/ mail/ science/ x11-wm/
>> UIDs dns/ math/ security/
>> UPDATING editors/ mbone/ shells/
>> accessibility/ emulators/ misc/ sysutils/
>> [chris at amnesiac]/usr/ports%
>> [chris at amnesiac]/usr/ports% uname -a
>> FreeBSD amnesiac.bayofrum.net 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #1: Sun
>> May 3 21:54:38 BST 2009
>> root at amnesiac.bayofrum.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMNESIAC i386
>> [chris at amnesiac]/usr/ports%
>>
>> I have an inkling it may be due to openldap, any ideas?
>
> Not a really helpful response, but why openldap(or any other
> program) would create sockets in random directories?
>
>> Any ideas?
>
> You mean you see sockets appear and disappear on their own?
> in random directories?
>
> Maybe sou should do something like "find / -type s" and
> then use stat(1) on the findings and see if birth timestamp
> ring any bells.
>
> Just a stub in the dark, Nikos
>
[chris at amnesiac]/usr/ports/print/lyx16% stat /usr/local/lib/webmin/init/var
78 566252 srwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 0 0 "May 5 11:04:51 2009" "May 5
11:04:51 2009" "May 5 11:04:51 2009" "May 5 11:04:51 2009" 4096 0 0
/usr/local/lib/webmin/init/var
Interesting, seems to be the fault of webmin. I'll investigate further, thanks.
Chris
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