On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 at 01:58, Colin Walters wrote:
> When I tried to set up an 'at' command today, it told me I didn't have
> permissions; this confused me until I looked at /etc/at.deny, which
> was about 100 null characters. Following this, I noticed that one of
> my old emails had been destroyed too.
I remember that this NULL character issue was widespread right after 1.0
was released. I was not able to update myself with the status of this
issue, though, so maybe someone on the list can refresh us all as to what
the known causes of the NULL character issue are, and what kernels and
platforms are most susceptible?
> It revealed that my filesystem is pretty badly damaged (about 150
> files were hit), so I'll probably have to restore from backups and
> switch back to ext2 for now.
This report by Colin Walter sounds rather alarming. I hope we can all help
each other to find out how to work on this issue. :)
--> Jijo
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