Interestingly, when I ran strace on ls it returned immediately. I tried piping ls into more and it returned immediately also. Finally, I switched from my X session to a console and tried ls /var/www/html. While it also hung, when I broke out of it via Ctrl-C I got an error message about smb_lookup. I realized that I had mounted a Windows directory so as to be able to test out some php code under Apache and the Windows machine was no longer available on the network. When I umounted the directory everything went back to normal.
Mystery solved, although I can't say that I understand everything that happened. David Suna. On 30 Jan 2005 at 17:37, David Suna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a RedHat 9 system. Everything seems to be working fine. I tried to do an ls /var/www/html and the command hangs. Doing the same on other directories is fine. I assume that some process has the directory open which is why the ls is hanging. I tried restarting httpd but that didn't help. 1. How can I find out why ls is hanging on that particular directory? lsof blocks as well. Running lsof with -b runs but doesn't list any open files in /var/www 2. What would cause this to happen? Is this an indication that the system has been compromised? On a different topic, what is the recommended way for keeping a RedHat 9 system up to date? Thanks, David Suna David's Consultants R.G.A Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-2-993-8613 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Suna David's Consultants R.G.A Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-2-993-8613 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
