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On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 18:04, Ben Munat wrote: |
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> Here's a weird occurence that has me stumped. Logged into my gentoo |
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> server and did an "ls" in root's home directory. Mixed in with all the |
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> files I expected in there were a number of empty text files... and |
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> here's the strange part: the names of the files were random snippets |
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> from an email that I received a while back! |
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> Now, if I remember correctly, that email was actually routed to root, so |
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> I guess at least the email that got sliced up into file names did come |
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> from root's maildir... it didn't come from somewhere else on the system. |
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> But I had thrown that email away a long time ago... though, I haven't |
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> done an "ls" in root's home dir in a while, so I'm not sure how long the |
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> files have been there. |
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> Well, I'm running qmail... anyone have any ideas how text from a mail |
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> file gets scattered around as names of files? |
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> Ben |
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Working with a lot of text files all days... I think i know what have |
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happen... I get used to have sometimes suddenly a lot of strange |
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files... In fact, most of the time it's just a bad COPY/PASTE with the |
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mouse in a shell that lead to lot of "no such file..." or sometimes if |
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the shell find an interpretation, the creation of files occurs... When |
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it's too much strange, the reason is often twisted... |
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Anyone agree with me ? |
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Tuttle |
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PGP/GPG Public Key |
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http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x63DB4770 |
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Key fingerprint = 4766 39E7 F30A FA2C 71A0 C6C8 1D54 72F5 63DB 4770 |
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