Re: weird symptom - possible infection

[Björn Ballard <bballard.debian@googlemail.com>]

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Miles,

Although I've not come across anything like this before
if you suspect an infection try looking at the output
from something like:

    ps -aef | less

for anything obviously out of place.  If nothing seems
obviously wrong compare the number of processes
returned by:

    ps -ax | wc -l

and:

    ls -d /proc/* | grep [0-9] | wc -l

But do remember that the ps command's count will be one
higher than the ls command's as ps has a header row
that is count.

May show absolutely nothing, but it is a start point.

Could you post extracts from the log files for around
the time of the spontaneous reset?

Björn

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