Re: Worm problem?

[Statux <statux bigfoot com>]

It could be some sort of intrusion..

> e        avenderBlush monChiffon       Sat Oct 23 21:24 - crash (-7449+-9:-1
> e        Turquoise    lBlue            Thu Oct  3 20:48 - crash (-10716+-8:-
> tGoldenr syBrown      ow               Sun Oct 24 16:44 - crash (-7450+-4:-3

do the legible strings on this line mean anything to you?

If no, then it looks like someone has made it in.. do you have _ALL_ of
the updates to the distro you run? I mean like everything up through this
morning:)

If yes, then...

It could also be a bad disk or a corrupted FS of some sort.. did you try
forcing an fsck? Whenever missing data.. fsck the disk (while offline,
and when the partition in question is unmounted)... I don't know how to
set a partition to fsck on next mount explicitly.. would be nice to know tho.

The possibility of a break in should always be considered.. and a
conveniently "mute" syslog file doesn't rule out one thing or another. I'd
hit the updates asap tho.