Here's the scoop. I'm running RH 7.2, kernel 2.4.7-10. My box had been up and running for two weeks solid, no problems. A couple of days ago I installed some programs using Ximian's Red Carpet program and up2date; one of the up2date packages was a kernel update, but I'm not sure if that's relevant.
Hm, I also installed Open Office this morning. Today I went away for several hours. When I came back, I found a message that told me my MUA (Evolution) was unable to retrieve my messages from my mailspool because my device was full. Confused, I ran df -h and found that /home was full to capacity, at 100%. I deleted some software and removed a couple of old user directories, and had the /home directory at 96%. Then I went to watch a movie, and when I came back, /home was back up at 100%. Reluctantly I rebooted the computer, just on a whim. The bootup process noted some corrupted files and I had to run fsck / as root to fix the broken files. When the system was up and running again, I found that I had to reconfigure Evolution for some reason, as if it had lost my user information. All of my mailboxes and filters as well as old e-mails and contact and calendar information were in place still, fortunately. I also ran df -h again and saw that /home is back down to 44%. I've checked the history file for root and my personal account, and nothing seems out of the ordinary. I've checked "who" and "past" and find nothing untoward. My first thought was some sort of odd DoS attack (based only on something I read in one of my Linux books which suggested that a DoS attack could overwhelm your hard drive), but the fact that the df -h shows /home at 44% after rebooting suggests otherwise to my relatively inexperienced mind. I've looked through my system logs and run dmesg, but, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for. -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Yahoo!: rscrawford MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery vi vi vi - the editor of the beast _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
