Re: WTF? several anon_inode and /dev/null listings with lsof search

2012-08-11 Thread Yang Chengwei
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 05:37:23PM -0400, rabidblog...@safe-mail.net wrote: $ lsof | grep anon_inode anon_inode This is anonymous inode, for example, the process open a file on disk and then unlink it. After that there isn't a filesystem entry attached to the inode anymore so the others can't

WTF? several anon_inode and /dev/null listings with lsof search

2012-08-07 Thread rabidblogger
$ lsof | grep anon_inode anon_inode $ lsof | grep dev/null /dev/null I find several anon_inodes and over a dozen /dev/null listings, in some listings for each there are several processes which are repeated. I'm expecting this to be a rootkit, but none of the rootkit scanners find anything. Why

Re: WTF? several anon_inode and /dev/null listings with lsof search

2012-08-07 Thread Jochen Spieker
rabidblog...@safe-mail.net: $ lsof | grep anon_inode anon_inode $ lsof | grep dev/null /dev/null I find several anon_inodes and over a dozen /dev/null listings, in some listings for each there are several processes which are repeated. So what? There is nothing unusual about that.