2014/09/28 20:40 "The Wanderer" <wande...@fastmail.fm>: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 09/28/2014 at 07:17 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > On 9/27/14, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Booted this morning, started my usual pattern of bringing the > >> appropriate apt-get commands up from history. (I'm lazy, okay?) > >> > >> Had a bunch of unicode proxies and a reference to a backup > >> directory that I haven't accessed in several months in my most > >> recent three lines, then the history that should have been > >> there. > >> > >> I can suppose that the arrow keys got accidentally pushed and > >> brought up some really old line of history, but I'd like to hear > >> if anyone else has seen history strangeness in the last several > >> days. > > No, can't say that I have. I'm guessing that something has messed with > your ~/.bash_history file, but I can't think what might do it in that > way.
And I'm a little worried about what would have done the messing. This happened just after updating for the recent vulnerability. [...] Doesn't look like anyone else is seeing this at this time. For the time being, that box is off-line. I'm doing post-mortem *practice* on it as I have time, just in case. Hoping I can tie it into something reasonable, like me dozing at the keyboard. Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.