[TriLUG] what the.......?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 19:46, Greg Brown wrote:
> Thu Apr 24 12:01:01 EDT 2003
>   the following files have changed
> /tmp/orbit-gwbrown1/oaf-register.lock
> 
> I looked in my tmp directory and there were /tmp/orbit-<username>/ 
> directories for EVERY user defined on this box - including root.  This 
> box is internal to my home network and not directly attached to the 
> Internet.
> 
> Any idea of why these things are there?  I'm still investigating and 
> haven't found many clues.

They're the sockets used by ORBit (the GNOME CORBA broker) for IPC.  

Jeremy