Marius Korsmo wrote:
That does not look like an *old* version, it looks like a completely
different file. Did you install anything not from ports that might
have overwritten it? Did you try and install a port into a target
hierarchy that /usr/local? (The same copyright header as the real
5.4 one exists in err.h from 4.11).
Operating system bugs are rare compared to user errors, I'm afraid.
--Alex
As far as I can remember, I have not installed anything that didn't
come from
the ports collection. I have only used the ports, and always installed
them to
the default directory.
I did not mean that this was a OS bug, and it would be really strange
if it was
since I can't find any other person that has had the same problem.
There must
be an application that overwrote my err.h. I've tried to provoke this
error
again, but I can't. I tried to install all the ports on another server
(until i
ran out of space), but the error did not occur. But with that said,
there was 20
ports I didn't have enough space to install, so the problem might lie
there.
I might be the problem as well, maybe I did something I shouldn't have
done. But
I can't really see what that should be :) Anyway, the solution is here
and I
hope it can help other people that end up with the same problem (if
that ever
happens).
Then put it down as a mystery :-)
If you are worried about it happening again, then just mail yourself the
head of the file every day from cron. If it does change, at least
you'll know better when it happened and might be better able to figure
out what caused it.
You could also force re-installation of your current ports on the same
machine, but that might be more time than you care to spend.
--Alex
PS I suppose the clever way would be to head the file, egrep for
Copyright then egrep -v the correct date (2003) since that will be empty
when the file is correct. So you should be able to arrange for the mail
to arrive only when there is a problem (which might be never again!).
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