-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am afraid (just noticed this as you mention it) this extra dash is an artefact added by my mail client (thunderbird) to escabe the double-dash at the beginning of a line.
Am 30.12.2010 18:17, schrieb Bob McGowan: > On 12/29/2010 05:56 PM, Martin Lorenz wrote: >> Dear Gurus, >> >> i recently noticed some errors at my mail-server and so I tried to drill >> it down with my limited abilities. >> >> what I found is really strange: >> > <-deleted-> > >> r...@x:/tmp# ls -altr >> insgesamt 20 >> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 29. Dez 15:06 .X11-unix >> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 29. Dez 15:06 .ICE-unix >> drwx------ 2 mlo users 4096 29. Dez 21:38 ssh-VkxmJ15962 >> - - -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 29. Dez 21:47 test >> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 29. Dez 22:06 .. >> drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 4096 29. Dez 22:22 . >> >> notice the file "test" >> >> r...@x:/tmp# cp test test.bak >> r...@x:/tmp# cp -p test test.bak2 >> r...@x:/tmp# ls -altr >> insgesamt 36 >> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 29. Dez 15:06 .X11-unix >> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 29. Dez 15:06 .ICE-unix >> drwx------ 2 mlo users 4096 29. Dez 21:38 ssh-VkxmJ15962 >> - - -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 29. Dez 21:47 test.bak2 >> - - -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 29. Dez 21:47 test > ^^^^ >> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 29. Dez 22:06 .. >> - - ---------- 1 root root 0 29. Dez 22:22 test.bak >> drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 4096 29. Dez 22:22 . >> >> now kindly notice test.bak and test.bak2 > <-deleted-> > > I'm not sure if this is relevant, but the ls output lines for these > files look odd, having "extra" '- ' characters at the start. > > Older 'ls' commands (not Gnu) might do this, if the file name contained > a literal carriage return character, but the 'ls' on my system prints a > question mark for non-printing/graphic characters. > > You could try the '-b' option and see what that prints. The Gnu ls uses > backslash escapes (\r, \b, \octnum etc.). This might help in searching > strace output, if you do try Bob Proulx's suggestion, since you would > know the actual character to look for. > > Also, you ran the above as root. Since the original file is readable by > all, what happens if you do the copy as a regular user? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNHN4KAAoJECZ8myNlGwU16YoIAJ04J8dyXKzU9AAck39px14V 39sRBNc04TSjkbfpKN2wedJLGjLRThPbEqfEAm9xkf0YPn1p4Gyv7CV4hhWvBXj2 wedSoCfWKfyCvAFDkFhQjl2foKMYMB6r/zastqIwm3TgivtYnVqIklyMwxB7mxD6 r5DadiASn3jwFTi5Zu8Al+J4VadJX3r/IVHsXQ13vqYrnHvrlzFPrfWU3CT5C42m rDdHRYR/R51aLlmCpl6PBi9+hfXpNZpFd0ulTQd/XBD7ARik/O2O2rFwEI1b+L47 rfuDB0yJ25FYNeYvzz3QALIpaSiCkcZQDO/te78b+KXyGdUXbLyErXTbRqzXOIc= =0nN0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d1cde0a.3060...@lorenz.priv.at
