Fix for MyDoom-O problems

[Mariano Absatz]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:48:14 -0700, Jason Williams
<jwilliams at courtesymortgage.com> wrote:
> >
> >Now... if some hunks succeed and other don't, you're into trouble...
> >the Message.pm is modified, but only in part... you'll also get the
> >original file in Message.pm.orig and a file with the failed hunks (in
> >patch format) named Message.pm.rej... you have to manually check this
> >last file and see why it didn't apply and if you have to manually make
> >changes or discard them...
> >
> >This last thing requires that you understand a bit of patch and diff
> >(and Perl)...
> >man patch
> >man diff
> >and get the camel book...
>
> Thanks Mariano.
>
> If I may ask another quick question. Let's say I run the patch and I get
> the worst, as you posted above. Can I just revert back to a possible copy
> of Message.pm and everything should be ok? Or, at this point, am I at the
> point of no return?
No... as I said above... if a '.rej' is generated, or even if no hunks
are rejected, but they succeed at a slightly different offset, a
Message.pm.orig is created with your original file...

>
> I was thinking of making a copy of Message.pm and then running the patch.
> If everything goes well, im ok.
It is, indeed, A Very Good Idea (TM)... I ALWAYS do this, even when I
know that I'd get a '.orig' if something's not perfect (I personally
use .ORI, but you can use whatever you like).

> But if something goes wrong, I was wondering if I could just move the copy
> Message.pm file into the directory and everything would be ok. This could
> give me some time to go through the .rej file and see what the problem is.
Good idea.


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