sletmig

[schenz]

Today I found a file named 'sletmig' in my user's directory. A colleague of mine found that on his Mac, too, but we weren't able to figure out, what it should do. It opens in text editor and contains the following:

declare -x HOME="/Users/dts"
declare -x OLDPWD
declare -x PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/dts"
declare -x PWD="/"
declare -x SECURITYSESSIONID="aa23df0"
declare -x SHELL="/bin/bash"
declare -x SHLVL="1"
declare -x USER="dts"
declare -x __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING="0x1F5:0:3"

Has anybody an idea, what this is for?

 

[eva01]

the only other instance i have found of this was a person on an italian mac site

http://www.macitynet.it/forum/showthread.php?t=6229

and nothing on apples discussion boards

 

[Milan]

Shell variables. You should get something similiar when you open Terminal and type "export". It was probably spit out by some process. I'd consider it safe to delete the file.

 

[schenz]

Thanks

Thanks guys, you allayed my apprehensions...

 

[fukuhela]

No worries, just delete it. Reason: In danish "slet mig" means delete me, so the is actually asking you to delete it...

As your system most likely doesn't speak danish I wouldn't (if I were you) delete the file because of my advice... Just to get it straight...