sendmail hash in /
OK, Richard et al; I've got a weird one for you here.
On Monday, I did an apt-get upgrade of my Woody box, built a 2.4.10
kernel, and started playing with X4.10 which kicks serious butt :)
However, I have found a very odd bunch of files hanging out in / .
For your viewing pleasure:
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 3 10:01 errs3cAjPx
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 4 10:20 errsBsXXgw
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 1 14:13 errsaNXMWD
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 1 17:31 errsnLgRvS
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 2 09:31 errsuYVBBQ
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 1 12:14 errsuyOfkj
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 3 21:33 errsvTUUTy
-rw-r--r-- 1 mail mail 0 Oct 1 11:24 hash
-rw-r--r-- 1 mail mail 12288 Oct 1 11:24 hash.db
Now; I know for sure that the hash and hash.db are the product of my
sendmail upgrade, as it told me that it was building a new hash. Lo and
behold there's nothing in /etc/mail by that name. The time stamp
matches all the stuff like sendmail.cf in /etc/mail, too.
Any ideas as to why sendmail might put the hash and hash.db in / ? Did
I screw something up in my sendmail.mc, perhaps? How about any ideas as
to what the other stuff is? The files have a certain look of sendmail
to them; like those strings that identify queued, unsent messages.
Thanks in advance,
Mike Pfleger
There's seventy brilliant people on earth.
Where are they hiding?
"Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45")
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