Re: [cobalt-users] NFS artifacts in /tmp

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 28 April 2002 02:08 am, Lorell Hathcock wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> A few months ago I tried to turn on automated backups via NFS on my Cobalt
> RaQ4.  While I was never successful, every day it would attempt to set up
> an NFS link and the backup would fail.  As root, I would get the error
> notification via email.  I eventually turned it off.
>
> I have noticed lately that there are a number of files in my /tmp directory
> that are NFS related.  When I try to ls that directory it hangs the
> shell.  If any process runs a df, it hangs the shell and the process does
> not complete.  I have to go in and manually kill the process.  What's more
> is that I cannot delete these files in /tmp.  I have not yet tried to
> reboot the box.
>
> So, here are my questions:
>
> 1.  Will rebooting the box clear up my problems?
             probably not
> 2.  What methods are open to me that would not require me to reboot the
> box. 
             You may have been hacked....
             Check those files you can't delete.
             What are the permissions?
              Do an lsattr on the directory, see if i bit is set.
>3.  How do I get the NFS backup to work?
        Don't use NFS it's horriblly insecure
         Find an alternate method to backup

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