[Hoary] mysterious file in /

[Thom May]

* Daniel Robitaille (robitaille at gmail.com) wrote :
> I just noticed in my hoary partition  that there is a a file named "1"
> in the top  root directory dated from January 18:
> 
> $ cat 1
> update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/fileordering exists during rc.d purge (continuing)
>  Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/fileordering ...
>    /etc/rc0.d/K76fileordering
>    /etc/rc6.d/K76fileordering
> 
> Not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it appeared during one an
> upgrade last week.  Is there a typo in one script somewhere in Hoary,
> and instead of going to ">&1" that output went to ">1"
> 
Good spot, thanks!
2&>1 != 2>&1 ;-)

readahead (1.0.1-2) hoary; urgency=low

  * Fix some redirections with '&'s in the wrong place
    Thanks, Daniel Robitaille

 -- Thom May <thom at ubuntu.com>  Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:37:27 +0000


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That sounds like a lot of work... Can we out source?
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