www.python.org hacked?

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Monday 14 July 2003 13:22, Aahz wrote:
> In article <3F12FA18.B04B400E at engcorp.com>,
>
> Peter Hansen  <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> >Have we been hacked, or is this human error during maintenance?
>
> Yes to both.  :-(  We were actually hacked a while ago, then failed to
> do a complete cleanup.  When we got the disk full problem, I attempted
> to update the main page so people would know what was going on; I
> thought that vi was capable of managing the re-write inplace.  I was
> wrong.  We're back on the air, with special thanks to Thomas Wouters for
> interrupting his post-OSCON snooze.

both vim and nvi have options you can pass them so that they do not make 
copies of the file.  nvi is -F and I forget what the vim option is.