Article:		Scheduling Tasks in Panther
Subject:		Files in /var/cron/
Date:		2004-03-06 02:12:57
From:		2stupid2knowit
I have 3 file in /var/cron and I can't figure out what they are / do. I have searched Google, but no luck. sudo ls -al /var/cron -rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 512 Feb 23 13:56 .41A2E0F2-6714-11D8-961EC-67395761B22 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 512 Feb 23 13:56 .41A4CCB7-6714-11D8-9615-000A95761B22 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 512 Feb 23 13:56 .D759WtHdZQeVA42GxP4V5aGIAIKh8flgZwzl drwx------ 3 root wheel 102 Feb 6 13:03 tabs What are those files with all the numbers?

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• Files in /var/cron/
  2004-03-06 15:58:50  ambrose [View]
  
  
  I don't know what they do, either, but they sure look like Universally Unique Identifiers (UUID's), with a dot in front to make them invisible. Being universally unique, they won't (or better not) show up in Google. Do a 'man uuidgen' to learn more.
• Files in /var/cron/
  2004-03-06 18:06:00  2stupid2knowit [View]
  
  
  My Google search was to try to find what "should" or "could" show up in this directory.
  
  I can't even identify the type of content of the files. Here is an excerpt from one.
  
  <C0><8A><A4><C8><EC>4<B9>H<ED>^F<C3>