From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 22 13:49:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA01239 for current-outgoing; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 13:49:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA01234 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 13:48:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) id PAA03407; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 15:48:08 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199708222048.PAA03407@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Files being truncated left, right & centre. In-Reply-To: <199708221540.BAA11192@mailbox.uq.edu.au> from Stephen Hocking at "Aug 23, 97 01:40:43 am" To: shocking@mailbox.uq.edu.au (Stephen Hocking) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 15:48:08 -0500 (EST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, toor@dyson.iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I've seen the trimmed .Xauthority a previous user mentioned, and now ordinary > text files (such as mh's dot files) are being clobbered. John, what's going on? > > I totally screwed things up. Please try the latest -current. (BTW, I had absolutely no such problems, and had been running this code for 3-4 days.) I am really sorry about this one, and I'll be on the computer for the next 8-10Hrs, responding if the problem persists. Again, I apologize for this. I had intended to pass the code out for review, but was so confident (erroneously) that I had bypassed the step. John