From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 29 14:19:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFBFA16A402 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:19:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A378A13C459 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:19:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.5) with SMTP id AAA25383; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:19:36 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:19:35 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Graham North In-Reply-To: <20070429104013.8567F16A401@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Chris Slothouber , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: normal mount points X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:19:51 -0000 On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:17:30 -0700 Graham North wrote: > I believe that they are mount points, not directories. I shut the > server down last night until I learn more. Mount points are directories, but whether these particular directories have been used as mountpoints or are just (empty?) leftovers from some process at some time might be illustrated by running 'ls -lartT /' or 'ls -la /net /host' to see in context when these were last modified, and whether both have around the same timestamps .. maybe a clue there? Couldn't hurt to run security/chkrootkit, though it can false positive. As Chris said: > > What is the contents of these directories? and: > Just for reference a file system is mounted to a directory. Before > anyone can answer your question about what these could be, some more > information would be very helpful, such as the contents of /net and > /host, the output of `mount` and the contents of /etc/fstab. > > Hopefully then we can help further. Thanks! > > - -- > Chris Slothouber (chris@hier7.com) -=- Mercenary Sysadmin Cheers, Ian