[lug] Strange modes

[Calvin Dodge]

Chip Atkinson wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I just discovered some weird file modes in my /usr/local/bin directory.
> Here's an example:
> 
> ?r-S--S--- 256 129      root     160582144 Oct  1  2028 glimpse
> ?r-S--S--- 256 129      root     131616512 Oct  1  2028 glimpseindex
> ?r-S--S--- 256 129      root     159824128 Oct  1  2028 glimpseserver

Whoa!

At first glance, it looks like a corrupt filesystem.  Have you run fsck on
this?

If this is connected to the Internet, I also might suspect your box has been
hacked.

But try fsck first.

Calvin

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