The pattern is consistent, at least. If you have to check out tape headers to
assure they are NBU, using dd, you will see they have some TaPe HeAdEr (or
some such) naming convention.

Since we use /root has the home for root, such clutter never seems to make its
way into / on our Solaris and Linux machines. If you have a non-/ root home
you can then isolate such things that tend to be written to root's home from
cluttering up the OS.

Just my $.02


Cheers!

Chris









"Steven L. Sesar" wrote:

> .....ok, then why not name them .NtFs.DaT
>
> Donaldson, Mark wrote:
> > It's also a pretty good way of assuring file name uniqueness to avoid
> > clobbering a real file.  It's unlikely any regular file would be
> > strangely named like this.
> >
> > I have to admit to STRAnge.tmp.$$ filenames at times to be sure of
> > this.  EvErY other letter is a real bear to type, though...
> >
> > -M
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthew Williams [mailto:Matthew.Williams AT raba DOT com]
> > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:35 PM
> > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] .SeCuRiTy.n files in / on Solaris
> >
> >
> >
> > Dig around in /tmp and /var/tmp .. this is by far not the only place
> > that Netbackup uses these types of filenames. They have been doing it
> > for quite awhile. Guess somebody's idea of internal humor. Just don't be
> > alarmed.
> >
> > Matthew
> >
> >
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