Major league corruption - anyone seen anything like this?

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> ... Upon my return to the shell prompt, I discover that the
    >> /usr/local/bin/python link is gone as are a number of shared
    >> libraries (readline among them).

    Paul> That should be impossible assuming you don't have write access to
    Paul> the /usr/local/bin directory.  If you can reproduce it, it's a big
    Paul> Linux security hole.

I realized that might be an issue on my way home.  This is on my development
machine.  I (user == skip) do have write access to /usr/local/*.  Sorry
about the missing info.

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Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)