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[Jerry Feldman]

Since I use Tru64 at work, I can research the problem. What release of 
Tru64 are you running. The current releases are 4.0F/4.0G, 5.0 through 5.1. 
(Don't know if 5.1 is actually released yet but I doubt you are on that).
On 2001-01-18 at 10:46 -0500, Ron Peterson wrote:

> Not strictly a linux question, but I'm hoping someone on this list might
> have some insight.  How can a file disappear and then reappear again?  I
> know that sounds ridiculous, but look at the following:
> 
> # ls -li passwd ; date
> 63444 -rw-r--r--   1 root     system    967593 Jan 17 15:20 passwd
> Wed Jan 17 15:38:26 EST 2001
> # ls -li passwd ; date
> ls: passwd not found
> Wed Jan 17 15:38:27 EST 2001
> # ls -li passwd ; date
> 63444 -rw-r--r--   1 root     system    967593 Jan 17 15:20 passwd
> Wed Jan 17 15:38:28 EST 2001
> # ls -li passwd ; date
> ls: passwd not found
> Wed Jan 17 15:38:28 EST 2001
> # ls -li passwd ; date
> ls: passwd not found
> Wed Jan 17 15:38:29 EST 2001
> # ls -li passwd ; date
> 63444 -rw-r--r--   1 root     system    967593 Jan 17 15:20
> passwd         
> 
> This makes the problem go away.  For awhile anyway.
>   
> # mv passwd p
> # cp p passwd
> #
> #
> # ls -li passwd ; date
> 88967 -rw-r--r--   1 root     system    967593 Jan 17 15:38 passwd
> Wed Jan 17 15:38:55 EST 2001
> # ls -li passwd ; date
> 88967 -rw-r--r--   1 root     system    967593 Jan 17 15:38 passwd
> Wed Jan 17 15:38:56 EST 2001
> etc.
> 
> This is on Tru64 on a DS20.  OS bug?  Filesystem corruption?  Any ideas
> for further diagnositic work?


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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


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