Erik Reuter wrote:
>
>> But there _was_ a virus-like thing going on.
>> The /var/log/messages file occupied 10 Gigabytes.
>
> That is a log file that get's all sorts of system
> messaged logged to it. There must have been some
> program or system event (hardware
> incompatibility) causing a message to get logged
> again and again.
>
Yes, the slocate was running, and generating those
stupid messages. All identical, all dummy, all
useless, and killing disk space.
> Whatever it was, what you have described so far
> isn't a virus, unless you left something out.
>
It's not a virus, it's system bug :-/
Alberto Monteiro
