[gentoo-user] Is this cruft in my /tmp?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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Hi All,

I was checking my /tmp and noticed a rather large number of two different 
types of files.  By far the largest number (some hundreds of files) are of 
the type:

prw-------   1 root    root         0 Jun 29 23:13 sh-np-1151622697
prw-------   1 root    root         0 Jun 29 17:44 sh-np-1151623392
prw-------   1 root    root         0 Jun 29 17:44 sh-np-1151623817
prw-------   1 root    root         0 Jun 29 23:13 sh-np-1151630251
prw-------   1 root    root         0 Jun 29 19:41 sh-np-1151630339
prw-------   1 root    root         0 Jul  1 01:14 sh-np-1151697722
prw-------   1 root    root         0 Jun 30 21:28 sh-np-1151698413

Are these some process calls that were cought in the /tmp when perhaps the 
machine crashed some time in the past, or when I might have shutdown with 
screen session(s) running in the background - I occasionally forget the odd 
screen session and since I don't get some system alert I invariably shutdown.  
8-/  However, there's far too many of them and their atimes seem rather 
regular.  Can/should I delete them?

Second largest occurrence I noticed (around 130 dir) is like this:

drwx------   2 michael users       80 Jul 19 08:51 gpg-pYdYc1
drwx------   2 michael users       80 Jul 19 06:59 gpg-pgQnty
drwx------   2 michael users       80 Apr 24 07:51 gpg-qHHiXP
drwx------   2 michael users       80 Jul 15 00:34 gpg-qT7BVZ
drwx------   2 michael users       80 Jul 10 21:36 gpg-qcGu33
drwx------   2 michael users       80 May  1 12:18 gpg-rqoxKq
drwx------   2 michael users       80 Jul 10 20:28 gpg-sefR85

Not sure why there are so many of these there.  I assume these are created 
when gpg-agent is launched and sets the ENV variable?  Each one of them has a 
file like this in it:

# ls -la /tmp/gpg-VLQYJv
total 159
drwx------   2 michael users     80 Jul  8 12:31 .
drwxrwxrwt 156 root    root  162528 Jul 22 23:12 ..
srwxr-xr-x   1 michael users      0 Jul  8 12:31 S.gpg-agent

Are these beign created by some error in my set up?  Shouldn't they be deleted 
when the gpg-agent exits, when I exit X?  Can/should I remove them?  If 
either of these are because of some system configuration error could you 
please make some suggestions for troubleshooting or fixing it?  Let me know 
if you need more info.
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Regards,
Mick

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