From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Aug 30 19:59:59 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF1A9C5CCF for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 19:59:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "infracaninophile.co.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65D9715F for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 19:59:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from liminal.local ([192.168.100.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id t7UJxoc0012408 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 20:59:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none header.from=FreeBSD.org DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.10.3 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk t7UJxoc0012408 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/t7UJxoc0012408; dkim=none; dkim-atps=neutral X-Authentication-Warning: lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk: Host [192.168.100.2] claimed to be liminal.local Subject: Re: /etc files To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <55E32375.9060804@hiwaay.net> From: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <55E360B0.4070703@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 20:59:44 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55E32375.9060804@hiwaay.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aX26daUpRkkiIu6mp9cqi8fPtiM6V20k2" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.7 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 20:00:00 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --aX26daUpRkkiIu6mp9cqi8fPtiM6V20k2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 30/08/2015 16:36, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > I notice several files in my /etc directory whose filenames end in ':'.= > Are these system files ? If not, can I usefully delete them :-) ? TIA &= > have aq nice weekend. What files are those? What do they contain? I have none with that naming pattern on my system: lucid-nonsense:/home/matthew:# find /etc -name '*:' lucid-nonsense:/home/matthew:# Doesn't mean they aren't valid, but they don't sound like typical files you'ld find under /etc to me. --aX26daUpRkkiIu6mp9cqi8fPtiM6V20k2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJV42C2XxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ2NTNBNjhCOTEzQTRFNkNGM0UxRTEzMjZC QjIzQUY1MThFMUE0MDEzAAoJELsjr1GOGkATZQAP/isReVmykySjzh1QX8n0cHuQ 0hECnuYkbU63MyH/ep0hLYnzkMP5R/hhLGLkYBP/8WZ+BK9gw2Dmuhb0M43nxWuX HVvNK8o4SUN2NL+txBJZ84+eeYwU/jXsL7YdF+cVbBGH7cycFPNVJtaXjvjOdjVW kIXRveZfgJDmOu6pDquzD1lWjQvZicu+q0ITD6YZpIl0cUHTSFggbIE3695s6bgf 0TpfHMizuYlFdPINLkm2Chk3KAhyleEucjHbRcK9vIr6CmVr2VTzzad0k4Un5TVX /T8kRL7i76IC733Iza9/tDDv7YobvGp7krTror7aRx6tW3ED1L7bZD/dM52QRcKK 8jEktPpHW49GXTV7TDm3bJtRVLRqt64sbg9S4pijx74y+4dbc7aYHN1aQVb+j4cw 2W2w6TdaiqJOdTDZOzZEfIEk5XDEYLsI7QQTdovVLSll0JpghFBT08j91+SJVW0y fgKE+fYAHpy6nqBrSrfqeIbuS1mtR4DcSMGAa0TYPr7z9YFajr2I5RhYQuOCJv4v 36oLnMAmKgHJD3C2TWKMCC7s/13RxKO1T89JlHraf8XU6Q8Ddm9hIKZehn9qUe4D A9WGVE5ncUOzKgSTtOLdkFlEvp+B8oINuyPxuB0zOKYRpChubawTs3KiUxOlZIIn n7YGn0fJ5J21Xcr3SpdH =5gto -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aX26daUpRkkiIu6mp9cqi8fPtiM6V20k2--