Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:30:34 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Andrew Robinson <A.Robinson@ms.unimelb.edu.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New files in setuid.today Message-ID: <44ejk8rus5.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <20070617012100.GV63160@ms.unimelb.edu.au> (Andrew Robinson's message of "Sun\, 17 Jun 2007 11\:21\:00 %2B1000") References: <20070617012100.GV63160@ms.unimelb.edu.au>
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Andrew Robinson <A.Robinson@ms.unimelb.edu.au> writes: > I have some new file names in my /var/log/setuid.today file. There > are things on an external drive, pdfs, html documents, etc. The only > common factor that I can see is that all of them are 's' in the group > permissions. An example is: > > 1766558 -rw-r-sr-- 1 andrewr andrewr 8076 Jul 24 19:38:17 2005 > /home/andrewr/0.svn/0.infrastructure/www_public/andrewpr.JPG > > Just checking the names of the files, I know what each one of them is > (or is supposed to be!) and none of them are supposed to bne > executable. > > Can anyone tell me how this might happen, and what I should do to > clean it up? The first thing to do is to see whether the contents of the files are intact or not. If they are, then I would strongly suspect filesystem corruption and start trying to clean up on that basis.
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