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Re: Unexplained files - why?

From	Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Unexplained files - why?
Date	2011-10-11 10:28 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 10/04/2011 08:29 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> I've just run rkhunter on one of my Linux boxes. It found an unexpected
> pair of files:
>
> /etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.system.lock
> /etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.systemRootModFile
>
> Both are empty and are timestamped "May  4 11:58" and so are probably
> connected to an SDK update since I found an archived copy of jdk-6u26-
> linux-i586.rpm with a timestamp of "May  4 11:59" on the same machine.
> What is odd is that I installed the same JDK on another machine at the
> same time and it doesn't have these odd files or the /etc/.java directory
> in its filing system.
>
> So, have any of you seen these files or know why they were created?
>
>
Just now and no. Debian squeeze with several Java versions all from the 
Debian repositories as far as I know.

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Unexplained files - why? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-05 00:29 +0000
  Re: Unexplained files - why? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-11 10:28 -0400
    Re: Unexplained files - why? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-10-11 08:08 -0700
      Re: Unexplained files - why? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-11 19:38 +0000
    Re: Unexplained files - why? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-11 11:41 -0400
      Re: Unexplained files - why? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-11 11:51 -0400

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