James Pifer wrote: > > > Find one of the processes that's still alive and do "ls -l /proc/<pid>". > > That will give you some info about it. The exe entry should be a link to > > the executable itself. > > > > ok, I found it. Now what? You said run strings? I get: > Multi-thread FTP scanner v0.2.5 by Inode <inode at wayreth.eu.org> That looks like the ftp scanner which can be found at <http://wayreth.eu.org/> - somebody is probably using your box to find insecure ftp servers for sharing files. Can you do an "ls -lah /dev/shm/..\ /"? Ralph -- Ralph Angenendt......ra at br-online.de | .."Text processing has made it possible Bayerischer Rundfunk...80300 München | ....to right-justify any idea, even one Programmbereich.Bayern 3, Jugend und | .which cannot be justified on any other Multimedia.........Tl:089.5900.16023 | ..........grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060205/2507fb2b/attachment-0005.sig>