loki@NAZGUL.PHYSICS.MCGILL.CA (Loki Jorgenson Rm421) (01/24/91)
For those of you who are curious (worried?) about that mystery file which I reported earlier. It is NOT a virus or anything to be concerned about. Here is the explanation straight from SGI. It is consistent with what was happening at the time that I observed this phenomenon. >> This is no real mystery, just a little Sun-ism in NFS. If a NFS client >> has a file open when the file server removes it, it (the client) creates >> a dummy entry named like you saw as a placeholder for the file. >> I think what probably happened is that the file was an executable >> that was running on your workstation, was removed on the server, >> your NFS client-side created the placeholder entry for it, then >> when the program terminated, the reference count went to zero >> and your system removed the placeholder. >> I've seen this on Suns quite a lot, but at SGI corporate, >> we stock every workstation with a lot of disk so it doesn't >> crop up much. >> Bob Brown >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Silicon Graphics, Inc. Advanced Systems Division 415 335 7299 __ __ Loki Jorgenson / / \ \ node: loki@Physics.McGill.CA Grad, Systems Manager / ////// \\\\\\ \ BITNET: PY29@MCGILLA Physics, McGill University \ \\\\\\ ////// / fax: (514) 398-8434 Montreal Quebec CANADA \_\ /_/ phone: (514) 398-7027