Hi!

Yesterday, I discovered that my root accounts .bash_history was of size 0
(zero). This can be a sign of a hacked computer. However, taking it
off-line and doing some basic forensic research revealed nothing. This
doesn't mean that the computer isn't compromised of course. This happened
right after I upgraded/emerged some packages, namely:

pyxml
Archive-Tar
IO-String
libxml2
doxygen
DBI

Is it possible that one of these erased/overwrote $HOME/.bash_history or
something like that (I'm running emerge as root)? I can't find anything in
the ebuilds.

My machine runs does not run any public services and the "shields-up"
firewall test site claims my machine is "invisible", which of course
doesn't really mean anything.

I'm doing a re-install anyway, just curious...

Best regards

Peter K

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