[geeks] Solaris 10 mysteryZZ

[Phil Stracchino]

On 08/22/11 11:43, Michael Parson wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>
>> Fellow geeks,
>>
>> I just discovered that /tmp on my Solaris 10 box has sprouted a large
>> number of identical two-byte files named /tmp/xfile.(\d+).  The numeric
>> parts are seemingly random, but look like they might be process IDs.
>> Each contains 0\n.  None are in use.  Their creation times are
>> apparently random, and I can find no evidence for their being created by
>> any script known to me.  They are owned root:root, mode 0644.  They have
>> the following frequency distribution by date:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> Anyone ever seen this before?  Any theories as to what might be creating
>> them?
> 
> Running MySQL by any chance?
> 
> http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=43051

Yes, I am.  Which raises the interesting question of why was MySQL,
which has not been changed in some time, suddenly start doing this,
build to a frenzy, then equally suddenly just stop...


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