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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Entertaining bug for your enjoyment
Date: 16 Jun 93 01:41:08
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu's message of 16 Jun 1993 02:34:09 GMT
In article <1vm0r1$3su@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes:
.8. I look at /etc/passwd -- it contains one whole piece of mail (??!!!!)
. between two random local users on the system, from several days ago.
. All passwd entries are gone, and there is no junk in the file.
.9. All mail, and all user accounts, are on a separate partition.
hmm, whatever the thing which replaced your passwd file was
*was* in an unused block on your root filesystem...
perhaps it was something which somebody had saved in /tmp, or something?
one time, before we (the NetBSD folks) put a sync() right before all
file closes in RCS, we crashed while tagging a while bunch of RCS
files...
we ended up with part of the source for the 'wumpus' game in an
RCS file for one of the kernel NFS files.
we'd always thought that NFS was ugly, but... 8-)
chris
--
Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass