usr.. directory

[WitchCraft]

Question: I have a directory "usr.." in my root directory...

I see that today for the first time. I recently updated from debian lenny to debian squeeze.

Anybody knows whether this is a system/update file, or has my system been compromised?

[SunnyRabbiera]

It should be alright, but its not a smart idea to use the root account.

[taurus]

You mean /usr? That's where binaries, libraries, manpage, etc. are resided.

[WitchCraft]

You mean /usr? That's where binaries, libraries, manpage, etc. are resided.

No, I mean "usr..", which is not where the binaries are.



It should be alright, but its not a smart idea to use the root account.

I know, I know...
I hope it's allright, will have a closer look at it as soon as I boot back to Linux. Currently have to do work on the f*ing *******, and just saw the usr.. directory when I accessed the ubuntu partition.
It might also have been the [HastaLa]Visa search indexer, which also creates random directories, but normally, these files rather look like 7df91f073c4b95475567fcd1244a

[taurus]

You mean /root/usr. You can see if there is anything in there.


ls -la /root/usr
or


sudo ls -la /root/usr

[WitchCraft]

You mean /root/usr. You can see if there is anything in there.


ls -la /root/usr
or


sudo ls -la /root/usr

no i mean /usr..

file:///usr..

[SunnyRabbiera]

It should be fine.

[taurus]

ls -la /usr

[WitchCraft]

ls -la /usr



Further investigation showed that it's a compatibility layer for ktorrent.