Segmentation faults

2000-04-20 Thread Ian Shaughnessy
One of my users has been signed up to a number of mailing lists, and he is now unable to access his Maildir/cur or Maildir/new directories. I as root can not touch them either.. ls reports a segmentation fault. Du does as well, and rm -rf also. Basically this is a pretty big problem, as I have

Re: Segmentation faults

2000-04-20 Thread Len Budney
Ian Shaughnessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...ls reports a segmentation fault. Du does as well, and rm -rf also... There you go, blaming qmail again! :) In answer, the problem you describe is (as far as I know) unheard of with qmail. And qmail does _nothing_ to directories except through th

Re: Segmentation faults

2000-04-20 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Ian Shaughnessy on Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:24:00 PDT: > One of my users has been signed up to a number of mailing lists, and he is > now unable to access his Maildir/cur or Maildir/new directories. I as > root can not touch them either.. ls reports a segmentation fault. Du does > as well,

Re: Segmentation faults

2000-04-20 Thread cfm
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 12:51:56PM -0600, Andy Bradford wrote: > Thus said Ian Shaughnessy on Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:24:00 PDT: > > > One of my users has been signed up to a number of mailing lists, and he is > > now unable to access his Maildir/cur or Maildir/new directories. I as > > root can not

Re: Segmentation faults

2000-04-21 Thread Ian Shaughnessy
no.. i know i have plenty of available space. i am just going to unmount the partition (unfortunately its /home) asap, and run e2fsck on it. however, i am still very much interested in what caused this, and if it could be replicated. because this could be a possible root hole in ext2, although