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Post subject: I♥QNX in file system
 Posted: Apr 30, 2008 - 01:09 PM
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Hi,
On our QNX4.25 system, the other day I was unable to use pipe "|" (as in sin|more). When I did, it seemed to try to execute every file in the directory I happend to be in.
Now many of the directories have what looks like a binary file called I♥QNX. Looks like the file system is messed up. What is going on? Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
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Post subject: RE: I♥QNX in file system
Posted: Apr 30, 2008 - 01:40 PM
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Hello Dan,
What was the exact command that caused the problem? Was it just sin|more? Is the problem reproducible?
As to the file system being messed up, try to fix it with chkfsys.
Thanks,
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Post subject: RE: I♥QNX in file system
Posted: Apr 30, 2008 - 01:49 PM
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Hi,
Thanks for responding.
It seemed to happen when I used pipe "|". For example "sin|more" or "sin|less". It was OK when using sin by itself. |
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Post subject: RE: I♥QNX in file system
Posted: Apr 30, 2008 - 01:58 PM
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Hello Dan,
Can you post (attach) one of the files with this strange name?
Thanks,
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Post subject: RE: I♥QNX in file system
Posted: Apr 30, 2008 - 02:33 PM
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Hello Yuriy,
I ran chkfsys and that fixed all the file problems. Everything looks normal and the I♥QNX files are gone. However, the pipe "|" thing is still a problem.
I can do ls, sin, cat, but when I try to use | it looks like it starts to execute each file in the /bin directory because I see on the display:
.. :not found
.best: not found
Audio: card type not specified
Blkfsys failed to attach name: Resource busy
If you ls the /bin directory, the first few entries are
..
.best
Audio
Blkfsys
So it appears that it's trying to execute each file that it finds.
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Post subject: RE: I♥QNX in file system
Posted: Apr 30, 2008 - 02:56 PM
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Hello Dan,
Try the following:
On console 1:
ls –lR /usr | more
On console 2:
sin –P Pipe
Do you see something like
21 //1/bin/Pipe
Thanks,
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Post subject: RE: I♥QNX in file system
Posted: Apr 30, 2008 - 02:59 PM
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Hello Yuriy,
I've solved the problem. It wasn't pipe at all. It was "more" and "less" executables in /bin. They were overwritten with directory information. Once I copied more and less from another node everything was fine.
Thanks again for your help,
Dan |
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Post subject: RE: I♥QNX in file system
Posted: Apr 30, 2008 - 03:34 PM
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Joined: Jun 25, 2003
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| The I♥QNX is a file system marker that's helpful if you really mess up a disk and want to try to put it back together. It is in a part of the disk that you should never see unless you are looking directly at /dev/hd0t77 or /dev/hd0. |
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Post subject: RE: I♥QNX in file system
Posted: May 01, 2008 - 02:36 PM
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Joined: May 28, 2003
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Dan,
I have seen more corrupted before. Someone mistakenly types "ls > more" instead of "ls | more", and instead of piping to more, the more file gets overwritten.
Just need to be aware.
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Post subject: RE: I♥QNX in file system
Posted: May 01, 2008 - 03:15 PM
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Reply to MSchneider:
Funny that you mentioned "more geting corrupted. That's exactly what happened. I was training someone on Monday and that is precisely what he typed by mistake.
"ls > more" which, of course, wrote the listing of /bin into the file "more". Then to add to the confusion, he also typed "ls > less" so that one was corrupted as well.
Thanks to everyone for responding.
Regards,
Dan |
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Posted: May 01, 2008 - 05:01 PM
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Sounds like a good reason *not* to train newbies by using the root account 
Tim |
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Posted: May 03, 2008 - 09:44 AM
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Look in root directory. There's file "pipe".
If there isn't pipe don't work.
This file makes with /bin/Pipe utilite.
Put in sysinite next string to run it:
Pipe & |
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