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  From: Phil Pittard <vk5ham@seol.net.au>
  To  : john@vodka.lynx.net.au, linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:57:15 +1030

Re: Strange File in /tmp

Hi... the mystery is solved thanks to john@vodka.lynx.net.au who asked
if I had grepped all the binaries for any occurence of "iNsT" ... found
it!!  -  grepping all binary dirs for iNsT produced this output:

makepkg:find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \; | cut -b58- | tee
/tmp/iNsT-a.$$
makepkg:if [ ! "`filesize /tmp/iNsT-a.$$`" = "0" ]; then
makepkg: make_install_script /tmp/iNsT-a.$$ | tee doinst.sh
makepkg:if [ ! "`filesize /tmp/iNsT-a.$$`" = "0" ]; then
makepkg:rm -f doinst.sh /tmp/iNsT-a.$$

Interestingly, I have installed makepkg (its an old slackware app for
making tgz's) on every pc I "play" with & none of the others have any
iNsT-a.(pid) in /tmp - just used makepkg on 3 of the boxes (RH, Caldera
& SuSE) and iNsT only showed up on RH /tmp.
Strange but true :) Anyway, mystery is solved - just wish I'd thought to
grep for iNsT ;)
Thanks John.
Cya, Phil

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