older Apache servers.. when crash... would it leave files..

[kahuna]

I am doing a little research on an old project..

I would occasionally find a strange file in my root directory.. something like KAXQ or something weird, simialar to if you try to load a Visual basic file into notepad... all you see are a few characters but you know the file is much bigger.

The company told me that when the server crashes, it leaves "those" types of files...

This was about 4 years ago... and I'm not sure if I can dig up the file(s) from the old computer I used to investigate...

But does the above scenario makes sense or just b.s. from the company...

Thanks group.

K.

[lemat]

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