Re: [gentoo-server] interesting occurence

[Ben Munat]

The weird thing then is that I never viewed this email on the server... 
I downloaded it to my home computer via pop3 and deleted it. Months 
later, I discover the strange files... though they may have been there 
since before the email was deleted.

b


Jean-François Maeyhieux wrote:

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