1 |
At 2004-09-27T14:29:45-0400, "Jonathan S. Romero" |
2 |
<jonnyro@××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
3 |
|
4 |
> Ben Munat wrote: |
5 |
> >Jonathan S. Romero wrote: |
6 |
> >>Ben Munat wrote: |
7 |
> >>>Jonathan S. Romero wrote: |
8 |
> >>>>Ben Munat wrote: |
9 |
> >>>> |
10 |
> >>>>>Here's a weird occurence that has me stumped. Logged into my |
11 |
> >>>>>gentoo server and did an "ls" in root's home directory. Mixed in |
12 |
> >>>>>with all the files I expected in there were a number of empty |
13 |
> >>>>>text files... and here's the strange part: the names of the files |
14 |
> >>>>>were random snippets from an email that I received a while back! |
15 |
<snip> |
16 |
> >>>>Did the files have maildir style names? |
17 |
> >>>> |
18 |
> >>>Not sure what you mean "maildir style names"... the names of the |
19 |
> >>>files were random bits of (I believe) a single email. So, the file |
20 |
> >>>listing looked something like this: |
21 |
> >>> |
22 |
> >>>root@foo>ls |
23 |
> >>>somerealfile.txt |
24 |
> >>>myrealpackage.tgz |
25 |
> >>>been meaning to call and talk to him but I |
26 |
> >>>anotherrealfile.jpg |
27 |
> >>>the other day. So, Bob was saying that I could probably get a |
28 |
> >>>anotherfile |
29 |
> >>>etc. |
30 |
> >>> |
31 |
> >>>This isn't an actual listing... I deleted the files already. They |
32 |
> >>>were empty files and their names were seemingly random bits of |
33 |
> >>>text. However, I recognized pieces of that text to have come from |
34 |
> >>>an email that my Aunt sent me a while back. |
35 |
<snip> |
36 |
> Can you check your syslogs to check for reboots? |
37 |
> |
38 |
> If you get a reboot without the corresponding service shutdown |
39 |
> messages, then you might have had some hard shutdowns. |
40 |
|
41 |
Interesting thought... How could an unexpected shutdown lead to the |
42 |
given indications? |
43 |
|
44 |
-- |
45 |
Batou: Hey, Major... You ever hear of "human rights"? |
46 |
Kusanagi: I understand the concept, but I've never seen it in action. |
47 |
--Ghost in the Shell |