[lugm.org] check this weirdness out

Thu Mar 25 11:08:55 UTC 2010

Use the sync flag for your freebsd desktop machine. 

I don't know which editor you use for your php files, but mine (emacs)
makes a copy of each file I edit as a backup. (and this has helped me twice !)

Incidently, I've migrated from freebsd back to GNU/Linux on my personal file
server. One day after a reboot, the freebsd server reported that I had less than 1 Gb of free space on a 250 Gb hard disk ! du showed that I used around 160 Gb. Where
did the 90 Gb go ? I ran fsck and the problem still didn't go away. 

Sure the system is clean from a user-perspective, but underneath, it's a totally
different story. I followed the recommendation of certain ppl to use freebsd
for servers, and I've got to say,
 it's a decision I still
 regret to this day. 

To people out there wondering what to choose between freebsd and GNU/Linux,
save yourself the trouble: go for GNU/Linux. I will save you hours of frustration. 

//Logan
C-x-C-c

--- On Thu, 25/3/10, selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:

From: selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [lugm.org] check this weirdness out
To: "LUGM Discuss Mailing List" <discuss at lugm.org>
Date: Thursday, 25 March, 2010, 6:03

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Loganaden Velvindron <gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Just to make sure the fs is consistent try printing the inodes of the 
whole directory.

[sch at mfwspam1 ~/mfw-stats]$ ls -i
329991 afile.html       329992 mailStats.php    

330014 mailStats.php   

Bullseye logan :)

btw logan talk about modernism :D i'd like you to read this [yesterday avinash gave me this link, hahahaha crazy article about postmodernism v/s modernism :D hahahaha

http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html

:)

ls -i, and compare it with the rest of the entries.

Btw, why are u still using an OS which doesn't feature a fully-fledged
journaling system ? 

And expect it to behave correctly !?

There is something more modern than FreeBSD and it's called GNU/Linux 

-- and it has a journaling support since quite some time.

//Logan
C-x-C-c

--- On Wed, 24/3/10, selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:

From: selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com>

Subject: Re: [lugm.org] check this weirdness out
To: "LUGM Discuss Mailing List" <discuss at lugm.org>

Date: Wednesday, 24 March, 2010, 20:10

"Btw, how did this file get there? :D"
good question... i don't know... i need to figure this out, this might
be a bug... coz actually it was initially a file with 300lines of

codes when i checked it  2 days after (today) it was 3 lines :D

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Shaan Nobee <s.nobee at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Selven,
>
> How about using wildcards:
> something like that `file -- *mailStats.php*`
>
> Really weird..
>
> Btw, how did this file get there? :D
>
> Shaan

>
> ________________________________
> From: selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com>
> To: LUGM Discuss Mailing List <discuss at lugm.org>

> Sent: Wed, March 24, 2010 8:36:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [lugm.org] check this weirdness out
>
> :D not likely :D
>
> Wrote a lil C application to display the contents of the directory in

> %s and %d shall run that tommorrow and keep ya posted [i suspect some
> weird characters in that :p
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Chris Wilson <chris+lugm at aptivate.org>

> wrote:
>> Hi Selven,
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, selven wrote:
>>
>>> [sch at m1 ~/mfw-stats]$ ls
>>> afile.html      mailStats.php   mailStats.php
>>> [sch at m1 ~/mfw-stats]$ ls -al

>>> total 20
>>> drwxr-xr-x  2 sch  sch    512 Mar 24 12:14 .
>>>
 drwxr-xr-x  6 sch  sch    512 Mar 24 09:38 ..
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 sch  sch  11327 Mar 22 15:02 afile.html
>>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 sch  sch    165 Mar 22 15:02 mailStats.php
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 sch  sch   1754 Mar 22 16:29 mailStats.php

>>> [sch at m1 ~/mfw-stats]$
>>> [sch at m1 ~/mfw-stats]$
>>> [sch at m1 ~/mfw-stats]$
>>> [sch at m1 ~/mfw-stats]$ file mailStats.php
>>> mailStats.php: a /usr/local/bin/php script text executable

>>> [sch at m1 ~/mfw-stats]$ mv mailStats.php mailStats.php.orig
>>> [sch at m1 ~/mfw-stats]$ ls
>>> afile.html              mailStats.php           mailStats.php.orig
>>> [sch at m1 ~/mfw-stats]$ file mailStats.php

>>> mailStats.php: cannot open `mailStats.php' (No such file
 or directory)
>>
>> Perhaps an intruder has modified your 'ls' command?
>>
>> Cheers, Chris.
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