From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 14:55:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8096937B401 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:55:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C429B43F75 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:55:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h6NLtO9t055842; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:55:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:55:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Rus Foster Message-ID: <20030723215524.GF3178@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1058981768.3f1ec788d0125@webmail.xmission.com> <1058995718.3f1efe06829fa@webmail.xmission.com> <1058996340.3f1f007432094@webmail.xmission.com> <20030723144439.C68935@thor.65535.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030723144439.C68935@thor.65535.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: sedwards@qrwsoftware.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:55:25 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 23), Rus Foster said: > > cd seems to work (I can cd to directories that I know exist, but > > get an error if I try to cd to a directory that doesn't), but echo > > always just returns * > > hmm strange...it could be the shell as echo * on mine does and ls "echo *" in an empty directory will print "*", since /bin/sh passes unmatched patterns through. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com