On 20/04/15 19:15, Felix Miata wrote:
Basil Chupin composed on 2015-04-20 17:48 (UTC+1000):
Daily a list of some files of unknown worth (to me) keeps growing in the root's root directory. An example of these files is here: http://susepaste.org/56549975 What are these .auth* files and what purpose do they serve? By asking this I am not asking for an in-depth explanation of what they are or reason for their existence but asking whether they can be deleted before they takeover the space on the hard drive? :-) There doesn't appear to be any process which deletes them so can - or do I need to - delete them on a regular basis? "Need" to delete is apparently a question of filesystem space and efficiency. Whenever I notice any older than my current login, I delete them. It looks to me like a konsole login as superuser in a normal user's X session is why they happen here, and have happened at least as far back as 11.0.
@ Dylan: thank you Dylan for your response. A very good question, Felix. I have to say that I have never noticed these files until 13.2 (and TW, BTW) and my guess is that they used to be depoasited in the /tmp directory and which was then regularly purged of old files by cron. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.6 & kernel 4.0.0-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org