char special files

[Fred Martin_1]

I just noticed a few character special files in my /var/tmp directory:

crw------- 1 root root 203 0x012000 Mar 22 2004 rdskABAa02060
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x012000 Apr 3 2004 rdskEJBa01699
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x022000 Mar 25 2004 rdskURBa01745
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x022000 Mar 25 2004 rdskVRBa01745

Any ideas on how these might have gotten there, and whether or not I should worry about removing them? Been there a while.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Fred:

You can remove them since they are not in '/dev/'. I believe that these are left over from an installation of Support Tools (stm).

Regards!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Remove them. Device nodes outside the /dev tree are generally considered to be a security thread although yours are owned by root with restricted permissions. Those could be the result of an interrupted SAM session.

[Fred Martin_1]

Thanks folks.