My /var/log/ directory contents dissapeared!

[Dave Mitchell]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 05:13:30PM +0100, thomas Armstrong wrote:
> Using Fedora Core 2
...
> This server is exposed to Internet
...
> I've just noticed that my /var/log/ directory contents dissapeared

Given that you're running a very old, and therefore relatively insecure
version of FC, my guess would be that someone hacked into your system then
did rm /var/log/* to cover their traces. This is just speculation of
course. 

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