On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 20:59 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 19:23:58 +0100, michael wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 19:33 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [ snip: discussion about mysteriously missing /lib/init/vars.sh file ] > > > > I would be worried if I found that this file had disappeared from my > > > system and I did not know why. > > > > I note Andrew's reasonable assumptions about a poorly updated system > > possibly having a weird set of dependencies etc. I'm surprised that the > > file's not there but it's impossible (I guess) to work out when/how it > > disappeared. If it was my work server I might be worried but this is a > > home machine with dynamic IP that's not 24/7 on the net. Furthermore, > > I've another box sitting next to me which I'm about to move to so this > > disk will sit in there just for data so I'm fairly happy about not being > > compromised. Or am I fooling myself?? > > That is really difficult to say. For one thing it depends on how many > listening services you had running while this machine was connected to > the outside world and which safety measures (firewall, tcp wrappers, > selinux, grsecurity, ...) you had in place. > > Another possible cause for disappearing files is file system corruption, > which could indicate a hard drive about to die. I would check > /lost+found and use fsck, badblocks, and smartmontools to test the > drive. >
Thanks. /lost+found is empty and fsck says okay. SMART's not reported anything bad. M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
