<snip> On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 22:04, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 5:06 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: > > Hi Anne, > > > > I have considered the idea. However, a cat on these two files show > > that they are similar to /etc/passwd, they both belong to root and are > > both read-only for all others, look: > > > > [andrei@localhost etc]$ ls -lac gtmp ptmp > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 635 Jan 13 10:47 gtmp > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1365 Jan 13 10:47 ptmp > > > > are you absolutely sure that these are non-critical files? > > I'm pretty sure this has come up before. Still, I think someone more > knowledgable than me will come on this evening and give you a more > definitive answer. > > Sorry, I don't know enough to answer the rest of your questions. > > Anne
</snip> gtmp and ptmp are lock files created by userdrake whilst changes are made. They can be safely deleted, I always find that userdrake does not work properly if run from mcc (ie these lock files are left open), If you run userdrake from a root terminal it works properly. Thanks to Stephen who answered this for me some time ago. HTH Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland
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