Re: [gentoo-server] interesting occurence

[Drake Wyrm]

At 2004-09-27T14:29:45-0400, "Jonathan S. Romero"
<jonnyro@××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:

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

Interesting thought... How could an unexpected shutdown lead to the
given indications?

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