On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 16:00 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote: > > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > >> <snip> > There is no way this machine could be compromised from outside. It just > can't happen. Plenty of i-nodes, plenty of disk space, no quotas, all > the lock files are correct, directory perms are OK, file perms are OK, > etc. It may be time to reboot anyhow and see if it comes back, or if > something pops up during the reboot -- hang the run -- I need the log > files to make sure some other software is working, and it appears that > the logging for it is bombed too, even tho it's got it's own logging > facility, it does use syslog to write. Have tried with and without it > active, and no joy. > > There's gotta be something strange.. now that I think about it, my daily > log got really short sometime back, but don't remember exactly when. I > assumed it was due to stopping a lot of processes. Hmmm.... someone > tell me what processes besides syslog and dbus are required for it.. I > may have stepped on my thingy myself! The last thing I can think of, barring kernel problems or compromise... [wild-bill at wlmlfs08 ~]$ ls -dl /var/log drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jun 25 04:02 /var/log > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060627/ada00c49/attachment-0004.sig>