From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 15 16:47:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA17479 for security-outgoing; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 16:47:32 -0800 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA17472 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 16:47:28 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA07710; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:49:40 -0700 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:49:40 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199511160049.RAA07710@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Randy Berndt Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird Security Check Output In-Reply-To: <199511152353.RAA04126@kilgour.nething.com> References: <199511152353.RAA04126@kilgour.nething.com> Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I got the following messages one day apart, out of a clear blue sky. I > am totally confused. Is this the result of some internal corruption of > my system? External hacking? God just hates me? Nah, nothing that serious. Look here. > ====== start of first message ====== > > checking setuid files and devices: > Memory fault - core dumped This is bad..and is probably caused by: > cmp: EOF on /tmp/_secure.1116 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'll bet that /tmp filled up at which point the security script got really confused. I'd cleanup your / partition or move your /tmp partition to somewhere with more space. Nate