Re: [cobalt-users] (RaQ2) Werid permissions disaster.

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 7 May 2000, Ariel Manzur wrote:
> Hi..
> I telnet into the RaQ2 and I this error:
> So I go to /home/sites, and type "ls -l home" and get this:
> 
> br-SrwSr-t 28750 25970    21839     33,  34 Nov  1  2014 home
> 
The 'b' at the beginning of the line means the raq thinks this is a block
device (ie a hard drive) , yer not gonna fix this with chmod, i'd guess
your filesystem is corrupt or has been hacked, look in /var/log/
start with 'secure' and see if someone loggen in, but look at the end of
messages and see if the machine was complaining about hardware errors and
such also
 think about backing up what files you can , if it's really a
corrupt filesystem, the raq may not reboot without help....

(if it does reboot, it *might* fix it when it does the filesystem check,
if it does home should end up in lost+found, don't count on it tho)

If your desperate, there's a filesystem block editor, but you need some
serious low level expertise to use it to fix something like this...

> So I can't access the files inside /home/sites/home.. Is there any way to
> restore the permissions ("home" is not a directory anyore..) I tryed "chmod
> 1755 home", but it doesn't work..
> 
> Any ideas? also, is there any log to see what could have caused this?
> 
> Thanks.. bye.
> 
> Ariel.
> 
> 
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