disk failure isn't anywhere near as ugly as an unknown piece of malware
or malicious user deleting your files...

that should have done the trick, yes.

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:48, Vtucatz elPunishar wrote:
> that would be ugly :( 
>  
> but whats speaking against that is that if i re-install X, the XFree86
> binary is still 
> not there. 
> well, here is what i did, perhaps someone can tell me if that was good and
> if it 
> should suffice or if i have to do something else.. 
>  
> rpm -e XFree86 
> urpmi XFree86 
>  
> i think that should remove and re-install X and its dependencies, right ? 
>  
> 
> > most likely there's a hard drive deleting stuff on the drive. I'd bet 
> > the disk is failing. 
> >  
> > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 08:49, Markus Gonaus wrote: 
> > > Am Don, den 06.11.2003 schrieb Vtucatz elPunishar um 17:38: 
> > > > hi everybody,  
> > >  
> > > > is there a linux virus deleting random stuff on the drive?  
> > > >   
> > >  
> > > At least there is a rootkit, which can hide files. 
> > > (Adore). If you want to be shure about this, goto  
> > > http://www.chkrootkit.org/
> > >  
> > > But it does not sound very likeley to me, that a hacker has reasons to 
> > > hide the X binaries. 
> > >  
> > > Markus Gonaus 
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  
> > > 
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