Could please someone explain those \0 hanging around my syslog…?
$ gunzip < /var/log/syslog.2.gz | hexdump -c
0076210 9 0 4 : 3 9 : 0 1 e l i o t
0076220 / U S R / S B I N / C R O N [
0076230 2 4 1 1 0 ] : ( r o o t ) C
0076240 M D ( [ - d / v a r /
0076250 l i b / p h p 5 ] & & f i
0076260 n d / v a r / l i b / p h p 5
0076270 / - t y p e f - c m i n
0076280 + $ ( / u s r / l i b / p h p 5
0076290 / m a x l i f e t i m e ) - p
00762a0 r i n t 0 | x a r g s - r
00762b0 - 0 r m ) \n \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
00762c0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
*
0076640 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 J u n 9
0076650 0 4 : 4 3 : 5 0 e l i o t
0076660 s y s l o g d 1 . 4 . 1 # 2 0
0076670 u b u n t u 4 : r e s t a r t
0076680 . \n J u n 9 0 4 : 4 3 : 5
0076690 0 e l i o t k e r n e l :
00766a0 I n s p e c t i n g / b o o t
00766b0 / S y s t e m . m a p - 2 . 6 .
00766c0 2 0 - 1 6 - 3 8 6 \n J u n 9
00766d0 0 4 : 4 3 : 5 1 e l i o t
00766e0 k e r n e l : L o a d e d 2
00766f0 4 5 0 1 s y m b o l s f r o
I suspect it’s been the previous php5 line:
Jun 9 04:39:01 eliot /USR/SBIN/CRON[24110]: (root) CMD ( [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -r -0 rm)
That “-print0″ and all the stuff is too suspectful… well, haven’t time to find now, I’ll hack my scripts to work around such situations by now!
Posted by mattia as php, syslog, zeros at 10:56 AM CEST
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I suppose that I’ll keep swearing against technologies on this blog for a long time. This round is the turn of PHP4/PHP5 on the same server. I wish to know: how was it possible that phpinfo() showed PHP version 5, while showing me configuration of PHP4? Nice: in fact the only configured module on apache was that of PHP5, but it read the configuration of PHP4 and used that for some mysterious reason. And I wondered why the wrapper for sendmail I set up in sendmail_path did not work at all… this is quite mad.
Can I insist on the fact I hate PHP and all that?
Posted by mattia as apache, module, php, php4, php5 at 11:31 AM CEST
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Oh, what a nice start for a techie blog. Insulting one of the most used blogging technologies, which has given us all that semantic stuff almost for free.
Ok, now, please, taking a nice XHTML template, and filling it with php which makes out more XHTML which perhaps doesn’t conform at all with your idea of what you want to put inside, splitting it in many files, is not doing stuff in a semantic way, with clear separations of concers.
ZPT are syntax separared from semantic. PHP is not. I want something more: we’re in 2007, it’s the time to change our way of thinking web designing.
But I’ll take more on this rambling another time. It’s a bit too late now.
Posted by mattia as php, wordpress, xhtml, zpt at 2:02 AM CEST
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