Quoted from Peter van Dijk:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:38:31AM -0000, John Conover wrote:
> > What does the '*' mean in ls -alR /var/qmail/info/9:
> 
> Trust me, it's not something qmail put there.

My suspicion was that someone typed something like:

        sudo touch /var/qmail/info/9/*

instead of, say,

        sudo sh -c 'touch /var/qmail/info/9/*'

in order to, say, ``revive'' a message.

        ---Chris K.
-- 
 Chris, the Young One |_ If you can't afford a backup system, you can't 
  Auckland, New Zealand |_ afford to have important data on your computer. 
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