From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 2 11:55:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED11B1065674 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:55:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 767F88FC18 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:55:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so8272313bwz.43 for ; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:55:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YP38onSbDGkRrNOIrD2fi3lpf+mSYa7p9IanaDag1ME=; b=tOMpKtsODJP3DPtb6uyEnM+KaI/OzGbcQDZphgzahztSkZD8ew8x8fUyG+ZC9Cq0Dl fmViLdpyo2IW7oTgFOr66H2lsEv4xPTgb39XOB4cOAyv2GT/w5EoV7mzRr70TsCXpQN2 VaWHlksoCsptuKM2Y2D/YYFo8+t6zekkFp5J4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=vi78K6H0TgtPqrGdRUGpDsBthbEGUaKDiXTBbGjjiDYlSIxYMPGC2nZOIjYNEysrkZ Q7raUuicRCphk716QLN6VF2WsM0jBesyXmn7ZFuVRwXmwL/zeUeYbZ0bB1HlUalshvMw imxo60qOLohFX4LiuOqLlIZc5zPgz1LQmylxw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.51.130 with SMTP id d2mr6760076bkg.12.1243943734205; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:55:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Rees Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:55:14 +0100 Message-ID: To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: var socket in random directories X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:55:37 -0000 OK, so does anyone know why I get a socket called 'var' randomly appearing in directories? I always use ls -F, and it turns up as var=, as can be seen in my ports directory. [chris@amnesiac]~% cd /usr/ports/ [chris@amnesiac]/usr/ports% ls CHANGES arabic/ finance/ multimedia/ textproc/ COPYRIGHT archivers/ french/ net/ ukrainian/ GIDs astro/ ftp/ net-im/ var= INDEX-7 audio/ games/ net-mgmt/ vietnamese/ INDEX-7.bz2 benchmarks/ german/ net-p2p/ www/ INDEX-7.db biology/ graphics/ news/ x11/ KNOBS cad/ hebrew/ packages/ x11-clocks/ LEGAL chinese/ hungarian/ palm/ x11-drivers/ MOVED comms/ irc/ polish/ x11-fm/ Makefile converters/ japanese/ ports-mgmt/ x11-fonts/ Mk/ databases/ java/ portuguese/ x11-servers/ README deskutils/ korean/ print/ x11-themes/ Templates/ devel/ lang/ russian/ x11-toolkits/ Tools/ distfiles/ mail/ science/ x11-wm/ UIDs dns/ math/ security/ UPDATING editors/ mbone/ shells/ accessibility/ emulators/ misc/ sysutils/ [chris@amnesiac]/usr/ports% [chris@amnesiac]/usr/ports% uname -a FreeBSD amnesiac.bayofrum.net 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #1: Sun May 3 21:54:38 BST 2009 root@amnesiac.bayofrum.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMNESIAC i386 [chris@amnesiac]/usr/ports% I have an inkling it may be due to openldap, any ideas? Any ideas? Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list?