Hi, listing my /tmp i always come across these kinds of files: -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 00:04 lsR29142.yDZdLh -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 00:04 lsR29142.vfuqPd -rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 00:04 lsR29142.wTiTL1 what are they? these kinds of files are the most commonly appearing files in my /tmp. do they have anything to do with ls command? TIA, max <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>listing my /tmp i always come across these kinds of files:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 00:04 lsR29142.yDZdLh-rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 00:04 lsR29142.vfuqPd-rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 20 00:04 lsR29142.wTiTL1</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>what are they? these kinds of files are the most commonly appearing files in my /tmp. do they have anything to do with ls command?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>TIA,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>max</DIV></FONT></BODY>