On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:17:47AM +0000, Ben Paley wrote: > Hello, > > I have Apache 2 running on FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE on a laptop on a small > office lan. Whenever one of the other machines (mostly Macs) makes a request > for a certain page on my machine, it is delivered succesfully but the file > itself is absolutely scrambled beyond recognition into a binary file. > Subsequent requests rescramble it into a different but equally nonsense > binary. > > I've looked with a binary editor and it really is completely messed up. I can > restore the file from a good archive copy, but every time the same thing > happens. > > The file was originally created on a mac by Flash (it's a 1.1k html file > which > just embeds a flash movie). Recently I copied it to and from a Solaris box > via ftp from an Windows NT machine (although it wasn't opened afaik - a long > story, clearly, which also involves a usb flash drive...). > > Anyone have any ideas? The file itself is inconsequential, but the fact of > such blatant and relentless data corruption is very worrying to me! I don't > know if it's the file or my system or some combination... I'd really > appreciate some advice, I've been staring at it for two days and I'm starting > to bite my nails...
How about setting the permission so that the file can not be changed. Then access the file and see if a process complains about not being able to change the file? P.S. I find it hard to beleave apache2 does this. I run apache2 myself and don't have this. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. Howtos based on my personal use, including information about setting up a firewall and creating traffic graphs with MRTG http://alex.kruijff.org/FreeBSD/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
