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Date:      Sat, 23 Dec 2000 19:40:44 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl>
Cc:        mysql-freebsd <mysql-freebsd@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird /var behavior or was I hacked?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0012231938440.26603-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20001221165506.F59674@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl>

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On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:44:34AM -0500, mysql-freebsd wrote:
> > There is this huge difference between 767 MB reported occupied by df
> > and 14 MB of the sum of all teh files. Looks as if somebody got
> > in, made an invisible partition within /var.
> 
> Looks like a daemon which has files still open although they don't
> exist in the directory-table anymore. Reboot is one solution :-)
> 
> The other option is to find the evil process which has still these
> files open, use lsof (/usr/ports/*/lsof) for it: 
> 				/usr/local/sbin/lsof | grep var

Or try http://tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~cmjg/unix/scripts/openfiles

(usage: openfiles /var)

no rocket science, it just finds open files which don't appear in the
filesystem.

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