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Re: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the "i" flag?



> Things seem to be getting worse. I originally discovered the problem
> because a routine upgrade of procps failed because it could not make a
> link to /bin/ps. I eventually found that it was due to the "i" flag on
> that file. I removed the flag and it then worked. However, last night I
> found that the flag had returned. I removed it again.
> 
> Today, I found that upgrading procps failed again, this time because it
> was unable to create /bin/kill. But /bin/kill does not have the "i" flag
> set. So it definitely seems that something strange is happening.

Anthony, try using grep -r to find out if there's some ordinary boot or cron
script that's doing this stuff.  For example,

grep -r chattr /etc




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