Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:46:34 +0000 From: Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> To: FreeBSD Apache <freebsd-apache@freebsd.org> Subject: file corruption Message-ID: <200604260646.39469.ben@spooty.net>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hello, This is more or less a copy of a message I sent to questions@ - someone kindly advised me to try here. I have apache-2.0.55_4 running on FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE on a laptop on a small office lan. Whenever one of the other machines (mostly Macs) makes a request for a certain page on my machine, it is delivered succesfully but the file itself is absolutely scrambled beyond recognition into a binary file. Subsequent requests rescramble it into a different but equally nonsense binary. I've looked with a binary editor and it really is completely messed up. I can restore the file from a good archive copy, but every time the same thing happens. The file was originally created on a mac by Flash (it's a 1.1k html file which just embeds a flash movie). Recently I copied it to and from a Solaris box via ftp from an Windows NT machine (although it wasn't opened afaik - a long story, clearly, which also involves a usb flash drive...). Since I posted originally to questions@ I have noticed some other strange corruptions, for instance a file which was fine on my machine but became a binary (although it looked ok) after ftp onto a remote machine. This happened with 2 different gui clients and the command line, and happened in ascii, binary or auto mode. If this is related, it seems to absolve apache... but I'm not sure it is. Anyone have any ideas? The file itself is inconsequential, but I'm very worried lest it should start elsewhere. Cheers, Ben
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200604260646.39469.ben>