From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 11 20:16:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA27309 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 20:16:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guardian.fortress.org (fortress.org [199.84.158.128]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA27297 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 20:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from andrew@localhost) by guardian.fortress.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA03775; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 23:17:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 23:17:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Webster Reply-To: andrew@pubnix.net To: Brian Tao cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Huuuuuuuuuuuge INN history.pag? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Brian Tao wrote: > This isn't good, is it? > > 243448 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 249158785 Aug 11 22:49 history > 1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 123 Aug 11 22:49 history.dir > 20696 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 140737509515644 Aug 11 22:49 history.pag > > > I know the file really isn't that large, but I presume the EOF > marker has been blown way out for some reason. The news server seems > to be running still, but this sort of thing worries me. ;-) > inn-1.4unoff3 (no mmap), 2.2-960501-SNAP. Anyone else seen this > before? Yup, lots of times after the system crashes, even though fsck says everything is cool, wierd stuff like this starts popping up here and there. Do ls -lo to see if any flags have popped up. This is usually the result of disk corruption. Regards, Andrew Webster - andrew@pubnix.net - http://www.pubnix.net PubNIX Montreal - Connected to the world - Branche au monde 514-990-5911 - P.O. Box 147, Cote St-Luc, Quebec, H4V 2Y3