On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:05 PM, James Finstrom <jfinstrom@rhinoequipment.com> wrote:

The answer often depends on the software I have often seen scripts and
programs touch files for reference

On 1/4/09, Josef Lowder <joe@actionline.com> wrote:
> In my /home/username/tmp/orbit -username directory, I have hundreds of files
> of "0" (zero) file size dating back three years. Is there any reason
> why all these
> files cannot be deleted? And why aren't they automatically deleted at
> reboot
> if the are, in fact, just 'tmp' files?
>
> srwxrwxr-x 1 joe joe 0 Dec 9 06:33 linc-985-0-5ade3bcfbbb33
> srwxrwxr-x 1 joe joe 0 Dec 15 07:05 linc-7a43-0-f80783d1f283
> srwxrwxr-x 1 joe joe 0 Dec 15 07:15 linc-7aae-0-5a1a5effe7972
> srwxrwxr-x 1 joe joe 0 Dec 15 07:15 linc-7ab0-0-7db99ee517913
> srwxrwxr-x 1 joe joe 0 Dec 27 10:25 linc-4650-0-3a4016ed619f1
> srwxrwxr-x 1 joe joe 0 Dec 27 10:25 linc-466e-0-2bd9b9541657b
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 joe joe 661 Jan 3 01:19 bonobo-activation-server-ior
> srwxr-xr-x 1 joe joe 0 Jan 4 13:30 linc-6c0d-0-5efb73cbc5321
> srwxrwxr-x 1 joe joe 0 Jan 4 13:30 linc-6bfe-0-744fa82528c43
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