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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!cwi.nl!aeb
- From: aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Strange MOTD
- Message-ID: <7906@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 10:35:27 GMT
- References: <joerg.721484101@iiasa> <15454@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Sender: news@cwi.nl
- Lines: 18
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- guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
-
- >> I recently found the following strangeness in the /etc/motd
- >>file on one of our machines. Does anyone know it all means?
-
- >It means that some piece of SunOS has stuck stuff from "/etc/mtab" at
- >the end of "/etc/motd". I've seen both Suns and Auspexes, running
- >various flavors of SunOS, do that. Dunno why, at this point....
-
- About two years ago I had a computation running (for several months)
- where the program used files for temporary data. It created hundreds,
- sometimes maybe thousands of files per hour, each file containing
- in the order of 300-3000 bytes. When the data was treated, the file
- was deleted again. Now this proved too much for NFS - I, and also
- other users, found pieces of program output in our .profile, and
- conversely I have found fragments of other files, including /etc/motd
- in my data. It seems that NFS has a small but nonzero probability
- for confusing buffers.
-