Hi. On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 09:29:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/31/2018 09:18 AM, Curt wrote: > > On 2018-10-31, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > > > Debian 9.1 with MATE installed from DVD set. > > > > > > Due a non-reproducible sequence of events, a binary executable was over > > > written by the contents of a man page in pure text format. For unknown > > > reason, the resulting file was tagged as executable. > > > > I want to predict immediately that this can of worms will produce the > > longest thread in the history of debian user. > > ONLY if members of this group can't or wont read. > I believe I rigorously complied with > [http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
'smartctl -a /dev/sda' output would be nice, but I won't insist on it. Reco