On Saturday 08 March 2003 11:52 am, Nicolas Laplante wrote: > My /var/log/kern.log contains some binary junk, which I find a bit > suspect for a log file.
Whoa, man, run fsck on your filesystems NOW. That log file appears to have pieces of /etc/passwd and /etc/modules.conf mixed into the middle. Almost certainly filesystem corruption: I'll bet the filesystem has a few blocks allocated twice to different files or something equally bad. (If something writes to that log and clobbers /etc/passwd, you'll be in for an exciting time.) I would definitely reboot into single-user mode, remount all your filesystems readonly (mount -o remount,ro /your-fs-mountpoint), and run fsck before things get worse. Evan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
