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Weird file on my Linux box..

  • 20-01-2003 11:47am
    #1
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,
    The other day i noticed a weird file in my home directory. It's called "-o", which looks like an argument to some command. Anyway what makes this more weird is that the date of the file is Jan 1 1970!! When i cat the file it just throws back garbage characters, about 6 of them. The box has not been online since January 2001 and this file only appeared the other day. Has anyone any ideas what it could be? I will attach the file tommorow as it's at home and i'm not.


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  • #2
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,081 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    sounds like random filesystem corruption to me, shouldn't be anything to worry about. Run fsck or something.
    Random files owned by root and with suid permissions are something to worry about alright.


  • #3
    Typedef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    Yeah fs corruption.

    http://dan.drydog.com/unixdatetime.html
    UNIX dates are measured in seconds since midnight 1/1/1970 UTC (GMT).


  • #4
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    Excellent. Thanks alot you two. I'll run fsck when i go home.


  • #5
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Might be no harm to run 'file' on it to see if it can recognise the data format.


  • #6
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    yeah the fs was corrupt. My little paranoid head can stop worrying now :rolleyes:


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  • #7
    tom-thebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭tom-thebox


    Originally posted by sjones
    My little paranoid head can stop worrying now :rolleyes:

    chkrootkit might come in handy for your self, its a little program that scans for most basic virus, worms, backdoors etc..

    How to

    wget ftp://ftp.pangeia.com.br/pub/seg/pac/chkrootkit.tar.gz

    Unpack the tarball using the command
    tar xvzf chkrootkit.tar.gz

    cd to the directory it created (in this case chkrootkit-0.38)and compile by typing
    make sense

    To use chkrootkit, just type the command
    ./chkrootkit

    if anything is invected it will tell you.

    Regards


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