----- Original Message ----- From: Aris Santillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:26:25 +0800 Subject: [plug] var-log (help) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi i seen lines on my /var/log/messages what does it means? [snip] -- Not to be a Cassandra or a paranoid geek, but it looks bad. It's a kernel stacktrace -- essentially, something made the kernel panic, and the kernel told you all about what was going on at the time. Essentially, not something one sees everyday, and not something one would ever want to see. But it happens. Off-hand, I can think of several possible reasons for this: *) Bad hardware, esp. bad RAM - Causes nasty surprises when certain kernel data structures get corrupted. *) A misbehaving kernel module, or a genuine kernel bug - In which case, the question is: what kernel version are you on? *) A genuine attack or attempt at exploiting a kernel vulnerability - In which case, the question(s) is (are): how updated is your kernel? Is the process (advxsplitlogfil) a legitimate one (i.e. part of your application, etc.), or is it illicit? (I'm guessing legit, IMHO) More info is needed (i.e., check the hardware, the kernel version, what process is advxsplitlogfil, what other processes were running, etc.) -- JM Ibanez - A million monkeys can't go wrong... http://www.livejournal.com/~jmibanez/ http://www.mycgiserver.com/~butiki/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
