From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 11:07:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00574 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:07:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from drmemory.fnal.gov (drmemory.fnal.gov [131.225.105.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00565 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:07:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rneswold@drmemory.fnal.gov) Received: (from rneswold@localhost) by drmemory.fnal.gov (8.8.8/8.8.6) id NAA01745; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:07:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980818130702.A1741@drmemory.fnal.gov> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:07:02 -0500 From: "Richard M. Neswold" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: David Martin Subject: Re: 2.2.7 errors Reply-To: rneswold@mcs.net References: <003f01bdcab6$4cfbf040$6ffc34cc@sdln.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <003f01bdcab6$4cfbf040$6ffc34cc@sdln.net>; from David Martin on Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 08:41:36AM -0600 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 0A C8 A5 76 DF 8E E1 B3 F3 97 BE 73 DA CD 4B C9 X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.mcs.net/~rneswold/www/pub.key X-Spambot-Food: abuse@localhost postmaster@localhost abuse@fbi.gov Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If memory serves, didn't David Martin say: > > It seems that every file that root touches on my > freebsd 2.2.7 machine inherit a line full of U's. > > The problem also appears in ordinary files. For instance, > after adding myself to the wheel group in /etc/group > it decided to put the U's in front of wheel. This > of course screwed everything up and doing a ls -al of > / showed that the files belonged to root UUUUUUUwheel. > This is easy to fix, as long as it's a normal file, just > pico and remove the U's. However when doing the perl > install it put's the U's in front of #!/bin/sh and then > the install program can't find the shell so it aborts. > > Has anyone else had a similar experience? Yes. I've been trying to figure out why this was occurring, and I think you solved the problem! I use 'mutt' as my mailer, but invoke 'pico' to edit the messages. Occasionally, some of my outgoing mail has UUUUU's at the beginning of the file. 'pico' appears to have a bug. Looks like you're going to have to learn 'vi'! :-) Seriously, though, you should probably send in a bug report to the Pine/Pico developers. -- Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rich Neswold | PGP: 0A C8 A5 76 DF 8E E1 B3 rneswold@mcs.net | F3 97 BE 73 DA CD 4B C9 http://www.mcs.net/~rneswold | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message