On Wednesday 31 October 2018 10:31:40 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 09:29:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 10/31/2018 09:18 AM, Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-10-31, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > > > > Debian 9.1 with MATE installed from DVD set. > > > > > > > > Due a non-reproducible sequence of events, a binary executable > > > > was over written by the contents of a man page in pure text > > > > format. For unknown reason, the resulting file was tagged as > > > > executable. > > > > > > I want to predict immediately that this can of worms will produce > > > the longest thread in the history of debian user. > > And will follow that rule about opening a can of worms will also immediately at least the size of the can to put them back into.
> > ONLY if members of this group can't or wont read. > > I believe I rigorously complied with > > [http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html] > > 'smartctl -a /dev/sda' output would be nice, but I won't insist on it. > > Reco -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>