Re: Is my sytem hacked/ Suddenly some serious problem

Michael Kujawa (kujawa@cs.ucf.edu)
Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:08:12 -0500 (EST)


> touch: /tmp/doex1256: Permission denied
> chmod: /tmp/doex1256: No such file or directory

Sounds like write permissions have been removed from /tmp
try "ls -ld /tmp", it should look like:
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 1024 Dec 16 11:57 /tmp

If not, man chmod

If that fails, try "lsattr -d /tmp", it should look like:
------- /tmp

If not, man chattr

> /usr/lib/news/bin/news.daily: /tmp/doex1256: Permission denied
>
Could be the same thing

> Server status:
> No innd.pid file; did server die?
Could also be the same thing

-Mike
kujawa@cs.ucf.eud
"the simple solution is not to do anything stupid as root."-Linus Torvalds

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