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Drake Wyrm wrote: |
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>At 2004-09-27T14:29:45-0400, "Jonathan S. Romero" |
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><jonnyro@××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>Ben Munat wrote: |
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>>>Jonathan S. Romero wrote: |
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>>>>Ben Munat wrote: |
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>>>>>Jonathan S. Romero wrote: |
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>>>>>>Ben Munat wrote: |
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>>>>>>>Here's a weird occurence that has me stumped. Logged into my |
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>>>>>>>gentoo server and did an "ls" in root's home directory. Mixed in |
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>>>>>>>with all the files I expected in there were a number of empty |
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>>>>>>>text files... and here's the strange part: the names of the files |
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>>>>>>>were random snippets from an email that I received a while back! |
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><snip> |
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>>>>>>Did the files have maildir style names? |
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>>>>>Not sure what you mean "maildir style names"... the names of the |
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>>>>>files were random bits of (I believe) a single email. So, the file |
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>>>>>listing looked something like this: |
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>>>>>root@foo>ls |
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>>>>>somerealfile.txt |
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>>>>>myrealpackage.tgz |
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>>>>>been meaning to call and talk to him but I |
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>>>>>anotherrealfile.jpg |
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>>>>>the other day. So, Bob was saying that I could probably get a |
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>>>>>anotherfile |
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>>>>>etc. |
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>>>>>This isn't an actual listing... I deleted the files already. They |
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>>>>>were empty files and their names were seemingly random bits of |
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>>>>>text. However, I recognized pieces of that text to have come from |
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>>>>>an email that my Aunt sent me a while back. |
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>>Can you check your syslogs to check for reboots? |
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>>If you get a reboot without the corresponding service shutdown |
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>>messages, then you might have had some hard shutdowns. |
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>Interesting thought... How could an unexpected shutdown lead to the |
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>given indications? |
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The absence of such indications. If you are missing the service |
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shutdown messages, and you see a line that says "syslog starting", then |
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you know you had a hard crash. |
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-Jonathan S. Romero |