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On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

> I notice several files in my /etc directory whose filenames end in ':'. Are 
> these system files ? If not, can I usefully delete them :-) ? TIA & have aq 
> nice weekend.
>

Compare /etc to /usr/src/etc