Re: Strange segmentation faults and Zombies
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:52:36PM +0200, Laurent Corbes {Caf'} wrote:
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> i'm thinking about a hardware problem.
> may the harddrive is in failure (get the ouput of dmesg) or a very big
> ram problem that corrupt files on the hard drive.
By the sound of things, this is starting to sound more like an exploit,
but you might be interested to know that broken hard disks can often be
detected with SMART. You can use "ide-smart" with stable or
"smartmontools" with testing/unstable to get information about
SMART-enabled disk drives. Then again, if you suspect tampering or
hardware failure, you should overreact first (copy the data out to
another system) and analyse later.
- Andrew
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