Re: test8-pre2 fs corruption?

From: Mohammad A. Haque (mhaque@haque.net)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 20:07:10 EST


When pine crashed on me while trying to read one of my mailboxes I ended
up opening the mailbox in vi. vi complained about Incomplete line and
sure enough .. at the end of the file was lots of gibberish.

This wasn't my bugtraq mailbox so I'm thinking it's just plain
coincidence that the linux-truncate bug reared it's ugly head and a bad
email was received.

Paul Jakma wrote:
>
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Thomas Molina wrote:
>
> > Odd. I started seeing mailbox corruption the day before the first post
> > showed up here. Since it was only one list (BUGTRAQ) and I'm still at
>
> weird. currently my pine crashes on me when i close my bugtraq
> folder.
>
> however, i don't think i have fs corruption. (the bugtraq folder is
> on nfs on a 2.2 server).
>
> Perhaps rather than fs corruption, your problem (and mine) is that
> someone sent a bogey message to bugtraq?
>

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