>On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:48:12 +0000 >Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looking at the SMART data for the drive, it all seems fine. I'm > now even more puzzled than I was before - seems to be random > corruption of a file *on-disk*, which just happened to change the > permissions of one file in a tarball. Maybe a lot more of the files > have been damaged, maybe it's a single instance. Or maybe it's just a bunch of evil chinese crackers. :) It's almost New Year's now and for the last few years, evil chinese crackers have been infiltrating everything from Dow Chemicals to Google to US Congres to whatever in this time of the year. I wonder who will be broken into this year. Did you maybe get an email from a collegue with a pdf attached that you opened? -- Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
