2009/6/2 Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9...@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.
>>
>> [ch...@amnesiac]~% cd /usr/ports/
>> [ch...@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/
>> [ch...@amnesiac]/usr/ports%
>> [ch...@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
>> r...@amnesiac.bayofrum.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMNESIAC  i386
>> [ch...@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
>

[ch...@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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