On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: m.roth at 5-cent.us > Subject: Re: [CentOS] data recovery > > Keith Roberts wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Paras pradhan wrote: >> *snip* >> >>> No. This is a production server and nobody logs in. Very >>> very restricted. >> >> Have you checked all your logs? What ports are open? >> What CLI tools to format a HDD do you have on the server? > <snip> > And then there's the other question: who has *access*, physically, to the > server? Staff? Have any staff recently been let go? Cleaning people? Sounds like somebody may have stuck a Linux installation DVD into the drive, and hit Ctrl-Alt-Del ? Could something like this happen by accident - ie woops I hit the wrong machine? Keith ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------