Subject: Re: Changed device node
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 11/23/2005 14:33:14
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>>Checking setuid files and devices:
>>Block device changes:
>>brw-r----- 1 root operator 19, 1 May 9 18:27:41 2005 /dev/ld0b
>>brw-r----- 1 root operator 19, 1 Nov 22 05:31:19 2005 /dev/ld0b
>
> Was there a panic that resulted in a core dump? Savecore will write to
> the swap area.
Yes, and it was around 07:30 EEST (UTC+2) so that would explain the
weird time.
The system was printing a lot of errors on the console so I hit
Ctrl+Alt+Esc and rebooted the whole thing. I was running out of
file descriptors (or something like that) and was unable to
even login on the console...
Thanks,
Martti