kow@gmdzi.uucp (Oliver Kowalski) (08/07/90)
I've been confronted with a 'strange' behaviour of the SUN-OS (Version 4.0) "rcp" command. Due to my own fault, I wrote: % rcp My_beloved_file To_the_wrong_machine: where 'To_the_wrong_machine' was the name of my current host. As a result the command exits with the error message: rcp: My_beloved_file: file changed size and the contents "My_beloved_file" seemed to be that of the /etc/hosts file. This bug also exists on bsd4.2 systems, but SUN-OS 4.1 seems to work fine. Oliver C. Kowalski kow@zi.gmd.dbp.de German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD) kow@gmdzi.UUCP Mail: Schloss Birlinghoven, PO-Box 1240, D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, West Germany