stan@clyde.UUCP (10/27/83)
After the following shell script ran for five or six times, I got the message "I can't find it!" followed by a carriage return. I couldn't find that string in the shell (esh), echo.c, ps.c, or sleep.c . Although I didn't try real hard, I couldn't get the problem to repeat. Anybody got any ideas?? {shell=esh, system=system V, mach=vax 11/780} while true do echo `ps -el|grep -c '^....R'` " \c" sleep 1 done =-=-=-=-=-= Stan King phone: 201-386-7433 Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ Cornet: 8+232-7433 room 2A-111 uucp: clyde!stan
dan%sri-tsc@sri-unix.UUCP (10/31/83)
I had a similar experience while a coop student. I was in late at night printing out a rather large, racy digitized picture on our UNIX system, and I decided to copy it to tape so I could take it back to school with me. While running "tp" (it was a V6 unix system), I got the error message "UNIX is feeling B A D -- call Kernighan". At the time I was a rather novice UNIX user, and when I saw that message I broke out into a cold sweat, aborted the tp command, and spend the next two weeks frantically grepping through tp, the shell, and the kernel for that message, trying to figure out what I had broken. I never found it. Five years later at a USENIX, while talking to my old boss, he mentioned that he had seen me logged into the console one night doing illicit things, and echoed that message to the console. If all else fails, suspect your friends... -Dan