According to cnb at eircom.net:
> When looking for dodgy directories I came across this:
> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 12, 5 Mar 24 2001 tpqic24
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 0 Mar 24 2001 tty
> -rw------- 1 root root 146882020 Jan 31 20:43 tty*
> crw--w---- 1 root root 4, 0 Mar 24 2001 tty0
> crw------- 1 root root 4, 1 Jan 30 20:59 tty1
> crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 10 Mar 24 2001 tty10
> crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 11 Mar 24 2001 tty11
> crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 12 Mar 24 2001 tty12
> crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 13 Mar 24 2001 tty13
> crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 14 Mar 24 2001 tty14
> crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 15 Mar 24 2001 tty15
> Just in case it is normal what looked odd to me was the 3rd line:
> -rw------- 1 root root 146882020 Jan 31 20:43 tty*
As detailed elsewhere, looks like someone did cat > /dev/tty* in some
sort of context where the glob didn't expand. Might be worth investigating
what's in the file.
Waider.
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