empty .ssh directory

["John F. Davis" <davis@skink.net>]

Hello

Is it normal to have your .ssh direcotry in your home directory to be empty?
I have been using ssh for some time now and all of a sudden all my .ssh
directories are empty.  I'm wondering if I have been hacked.  

To continue my tale of woe, My /var/syslog file was emptied of all old 
entries and this was entered at the top of the  file.

Mar 17 06:27:23 suit syslogd 1.3-3#31: restart.


Lastly, I have this process in my ps auwx output.  If I kill it, it comes
back.  I have no idea what it is.  Could it be normal?  For what it matters
, I run xdm.


root       216  0.0  1.9  2240  1256  ?  S   Mar 10   0:00 -:0


John