Thanks Philip,

On Sunday 23 July 2006 14:29, Philip Webb wrote:
> 060723 Philip Webb wrote:

> I deleted all the sh-np's in my own  /tmp  & rebooted without any problem.

I assume what you say is that they were not recreated?

> Also looking in my archives at the output of Elog ,
> there were  2  packages which was updated around both those dates, ie
>
>   bzip2-1.0.2-r4 -> r5 & 1.0.3 -> 1.0.3-r4
>   shadow-4.0.5-r2 -> r3 & 4.0.5-r3 -> 4.0.7-r3
>
> Perhaps this may point someone to an explanation.

If you are not getting these creatures in your /tmp dir anymore and assuming 
that they are kernel dependent, it may be that they will cease to be created 
soon as I update this (stable) machine and roll up my next kernel version 
(I'm on  2.6.16-gentoo-r13 now).

This leaves the gnupg problem.  Any idea what the log-socket file is all 
about?  

srwxr-xr-x  1 michael users      0 Jun  6 20:29 log-socket

I moved it, it was not re-created yet and there doesn't seem to be a problem 
so far, other than the error message when I manually launch gpg:
================================
$ eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon)"
can't connect to `/home/michael/.gnupg/log-socket': No such file or directory
================================

If you remember my previous message when the lock file was still there, I was 
getting: 

can't connect to `/home/michael/.gnupg/log-socket': Connection refused

So it seems to need the lock file but I don't really know how it is 
(re)created.  Any ideas anyone?
-- 
Regards,
Mick