Temporary lock files?

aslam karachiwala aslam at mythicflow.com
Wed Sep 9 23:24:49 CEST 2015


On 09/08/2015 12:26 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 19:57, aslam at mythicflow.com said:
>
>> My ~/.gnupg directory is getting filled with files named like
>> ".#lk0x7feb6a637540.<hostname>.26914".
>>
>> Shouldn't these get deleted automagically?
> It used to be common prectise to have a cron job deleting ".#" prefixed
> files after a few days.  I don't know wether current distros install
> such a cron job.
>
>
> Shalom-Salam,
>
>    Werner
>
>
Meant to post this earlier... The accumulation of the lock files
apparently had to do with a misconfigured backup/sync. They stopped
accumulating after I excluded them from the backup.

That was the only time I ever saw the lock files, so this is likely not
an issue.

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