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Subject: Re: Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy?
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:28:38PM -0600 or thereabouts, sedwards@qrwsoftware.com wrote:
>  
> I get the same Segmentation fault when I try to run dmesg.  I'm using the 
> bash shell.  Oddly enough I can run sh though.  Another odd thing if I try 
> to use cat with bash I get: 
>  
> -bash: cat: command not found 
>  
> but I get this if I run cat from sh: 
>  
> cat: no such device or address 

Wild guess: do you have LD_PRELOAD set? Quick test:
unset LD_PRELOAD
cat /dev/null

-- Josh

>  
> Thanks 
>   -Scott 
>  
>  
> Quoting Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>: 
>  
> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 sedwards@qrwsoftware.com wrote: 
> >  
> > > 
> > > Hello I have a remote machine running FreeBSD 4.8 that runs my 
> > internet 
> > > radio station (http://www.itsallgoodradio.com) and it has gone wacky.  
> > It 
> > > will be several hours before anyone can get to it to reboot it.  I 
> have 
> > a 
> > > ssh login prompt that is still live, but anytime I try to execute a 
> > > command I get either a Segmentation Fault or if I try to "su" I get an 
> > > Abort trap.  If I try to ssh into it now I get: 
> > > 
> > > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host 
> > > 
> >  
> > Hi, 
> > OK can you run dmesg at all? I guess you can. Which shell are you 
> > running 
> > as you might be able to use some of the builtin commands 
> >  
> >  
> > Cheers 
> >  
> > Rus 
> >  
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