Re: [Savannah-hackers] subversions:/etc/cron.d polluted?

[Loic Dachary]

Hugo Gayosso writes:
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 > subversions:/etc/cron.d# ll
 > total 44
 > drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct 14 18:52 .
 > drwxr-xr-x   69 root     root         8192 Nov 14 23:05 ..
 > - -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          191 Apr  9  2001 exim
 > - -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          107 Oct 14 18:52 mrtg
 > - -rw-r--r--    1 root     root           82 Jan 10  2000 mrtg.~1~
 > - -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1271 Jun  7 17:45 savannah
 > - -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          878 Mar 15  2001 savannah.~1~
 > - -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1000 Mar 20  2001 savannah.~2~
 > - -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1198 Apr 14  2001 savannah.~4~
 > - -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1271 Apr 21  2001 savannah.~5~
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 > 
 > I am not 100% sure but I have the impression that it is not a good
 > idea to keep those backup files there (.~ files) unless we know for
 > sure that they are being ignored by cron.
 > 
 > As far as I know, cron goes and reads all the files there and loads
 > them.
 > 

        They are ignored but I deleted the backups anyway. Scary ;-)

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