Em Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 09:07:10PM -0400, Mohammad A. Haque escreveu:
> 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?
2.4.0-test8-pre2
mutt 1.2.5
Sony Vaio 505
IDE PIIX4
lots of disk activity
Mailbox eaten by alien penguins :( using hexedit I saw that it was almost
completely zeroed, now I'm back to test8-pre1 (by what Al said it should
have the same problem, but now I'm not stressing the machine).
- Arnaldo
PS.: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/8726/hexedit.html
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