From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 1 10:04:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA29525 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA29518 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:04:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA00308 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:04:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:04:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Cross" To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: fs wierdness Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Not entirely sure how this happened, but I was logged onto my system when (at least, have not found others) these following files were corrupted: /bin/mkdir /bin/mv /bin/pax /bin/ps They were corrupted to be character special files, with the same major/minors as /dev/ttyp0,/dev/pty0. I then fsck-ed the volume and it reported numerous errors with these files. the system 'had' an uptime of 25 days before this, without any other problems. Any idea what could have caused this? -- David Cross ACS Consultant