Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 01:12:02 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files? Message-ID: <20060501231202.GA972@Alex1.kruijff.org> In-Reply-To: <200604251541.19053.ben@spooty.net> References: <200604201017.48209.ben@spooty.net> <990590.1145629602654.JavaMail.pibu@Z1DROPOFF> <200604251541.19053.ben@spooty.net>
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:41:18PM +0000, Ben Paley wrote: > On Friday 21 April 2006 00:31, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:17:47AM +0000, Ben Paley wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have Apache 2 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...). > > > > > > Anyone have any ideas? The file itself is inconsequential, but the fact > > > of such blatant and relentless data corruption is very worrying to me! I > > > don't know if it's the file or my system or some combination... I'd > > > really appreciate some advice, I've been staring at it for two days and > > > I'm starting to bite my nails... > > > > How about setting the permission so that the file can not be changed. > > Then access the file and see if a process complains about not being able > > to change the file? > > > > P.S. I find it hard to beleave apache2 does this. I run apache2 myself > > and don't have this. > > I've set the permissions to 444 and I'm still seeing the same corruption, so > it must be something running as root, or something quite low level. No > console messages and I don't really know where to look for error logs - I > think you're right and it's not apache. > > I've started to notice some other strange corruptions - some php files seem to > become binary on a remote machine, even though my local copies are fine. > Perhaps it's the server... but we've never had this trouble before, and it > seems a little too much like what's happening on my machine to be a > coincidence. One file I tried uploading with two different gui ftp clients > and via command line, in ascii, binary and auto mode, and again the same > thing happened each time - my browser complained of unknown ascii characters > and kate (text editor) told me it was a binary file even though it looked ok. > I tried changing the encoding and that made no difference. > > I am actually quite worried now. There seems to be something holding all these > occurences together, but I can't quite work out what it is. > > Does anyone have any ideas where to look? I'd really appreciate it! My quess it that its hardware related. Your HD could be dying. -- Alex
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