On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 17:37 +0200, David Suna wrote:
> I have a RedHat 9 system. Everything seems to be working fine. I tried
> to do an ls /var/www/html and the command hangs. Doing the same on other
> directories is fine. I assume that some process has the directory open
> which is why the ls is hanging. I tried restarting httpd but that didn't
> help.
>
> 1. How can I find out why ls is hanging on that particular directory?
> lsof blocks as well. Running lsof with -b runs but doesn't list any open
> files in /var/www
What does strace ls /var/www/html say? It should tell you at which
system call did ls hang, and it will help all of us diagnose the
problem.
> 2. What would cause this to happen? Is this an indication that the system
> has been compromised?
>
> On a different topic, what is the recommended way for keeping a RedHat 9
> system up to date?
My own answer to a similar question (s/9/8.0/g) was to switch to Debian
Testing.
--- Omer
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