uucico screwed up /bin/login - possible kernel bug?

[System Manager]

An interesting thing happened yesterday. People came complaining about not
being able to log in. On checking I found that /bin/login had been knobbled
and what looked like an X file from uucp put at the front. The rest looked
untouched and the size was still the same.

It looks like the kernel got its knickers in a twist, or at least its buffer
pointers.

Before I spend lots of time trying to find the bug, has anybody experienced
anything similar? We run 4.1bsd on a 780. The disks are System Industries
160MB Fuji and DEC RM03's.

Ever grateful for your attention:


Zdravko Podolski, Comp Sci Dept, Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland
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