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  From: Marcfive <marcfive@optusnet.com.au>
  To  : James Collins <sysadmin@ltuae.com>
        LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:58:58 +0930

RE: Unusual log file : red faced

thx to all.
hmmm, it must have been a slip up when saving an editted file.
the contents was my smb.conf file

cheers.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Collins [mailto:sysadmin@ltuae.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 April 2003 2:49 PM
> To: LinuxSA
> Subject: Re: Unusual log file
> 
> 
> > It's named \ and has a date of 22 Apr and is 861 bytes.
> > I can not cat/less/vi this file.
> 
>     Try
> 
>      vi '\'
> 
>     Do you sometime vi your logfiles? If you accidentally type w\ 
> instead of
> just w, it will have saved that logfile as /
> 
>     Best guess :)
> 
> James :) Collins
> 
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