Re: sshfs installation error
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 20:59 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 19:23:58 +0100, michael wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 19:33 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
> [ snip: discussion about mysteriously missing /lib/init/vars.sh file ]
>
> > > I would be worried if I found that this file had disappeared from my
> > > system and I did not know why.
> >
> > I note Andrew's reasonable assumptions about a poorly updated system
> > possibly having a weird set of dependencies etc. I'm surprised that the
> > file's not there but it's impossible (I guess) to work out when/how it
> > disappeared. If it was my work server I might be worried but this is a
> > home machine with dynamic IP that's not 24/7 on the net. Furthermore,
> > I've another box sitting next to me which I'm about to move to so this
> > disk will sit in there just for data so I'm fairly happy about not being
> > compromised. Or am I fooling myself??
>
> That is really difficult to say. For one thing it depends on how many
> listening services you had running while this machine was connected to
> the outside world and which safety measures (firewall, tcp wrappers,
> selinux, grsecurity, ...) you had in place.
>
> Another possible cause for disappearing files is file system corruption,
> which could indicate a hard drive about to die. I would check
> /lost+found and use fsck, badblocks, and smartmontools to test the
> drive.
>
Thanks. /lost+found is empty and fsck says okay. SMART's not reported
anything bad.
M
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