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<p><strong>From andrew
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i see a number of suspicious files in my proc directory.For
example there is a directory that is called 6 & when i look in this folder i
see i number of files eg
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<pre><strong>[root@echelon 6]# ls -la
ls: exe: Permission denied
ls: root: Permission denied
ls: cwd: Permission denied
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Mar 26 14:28 .
dr-xr-xr-x 89 root root 0 Mar 26 07:32 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 14:29 cmdline
lrwx------ 1 root root 0 Mar 26 14:29 cwd
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 14:29 environ
lrwx------ 1 root root 0 Mar 26 14:29 exe
dr-x------ 2 root root 0 Mar 26 14:29 fd
pr--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 14:29 maps
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 14:29 mem
lrwx------ 1 root root 0 Mar 26 14:29 root
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 14:29 stat
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 14:29 statm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 14:29 status
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<BLOCKQUOTE><IMG SRC="../../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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> [Mike]
This is normal. See "man proc".
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>
Notice the permission denied on those 3 files. Why is this if i am root??.
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> [Mike]
I get this error when I'm not root but not if I am root. The three
"files" are symbolic links to other directories. So it would depend what
the permissions of those "other" directories are.
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>
I
cant delete them or change anything about them. What would you suggest?? I
mean they are links to other files so why can i just unlink them.
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> [Mike]
You shouldn't try to change or unlink them. The directory will disappear
when process 6 dies.
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To see for yourself that nothing funny is going on, run "umount <TT>/proc</TT>"
as root. (If you get a "Device Busy" error, it probably means some
process has its current directory inside <TT>/proc.</TT> You cannot unmount
a filesystem if somebody's current directory is inside it.)
The <TT>/proc</TT> directory should
be empty now. Run "mount <TT>/proc</TT>" or "mount -t proc proc <TT>/proc</TT>" and
the "files" should reappear.
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HEIGHT="28" WIDTH="50" BORDER="0"
>
Also as a side note do you have any idea that when im in shell within this
directory that those 3 files are flashing??
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> [Mike]
That's part of the color configuration of the 'ls' command. Usually,
flashing means it's a dead symbolic link (a link pointing to a
nonexistent file). If it's inside <TT>/proc</TT>, I would assume the kernel
knows what it's doing and not worry about it.
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