From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 18 12:19:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D597D16A420 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:19:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif2-0-0-cust107.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.104.168.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A91543D45 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:19:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from fenrir.insrv.cf.ac.uk ([131.251.50.213]) by shrike.submonkey.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FAR40-000M4W-Ud; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:19:53 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.0.050811 Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:13:40 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: , Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Odd file created in / Thread-Index: AcY0dfTxdlLiHcfESaG9nO7XVBa4NAADsvCB In-Reply-To: <032b01c63475$f5950580$0401a8c0@Mike8500> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Odd file created in / X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:19:55 -0000 On 18/2/06 10:27, "Mike Loiterman" wrote: > I have a file in / called -P. It is a socket file I believe I created by > mistake while trying to get mysql, spamassassin, or something similar to > work. > > How can I check for sure to make sure it isn't something important? Check to see if anything has it open currently. "netstat -a -f unix" will do that for you. Then rename it. Then wait a week before unlinking it. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere