At 14:15 21.03.2002 -0600, you wrote: >Any idea as to how it got on my server. It is owned by apache and in the >apache group. That tells me that it was put on there by apache. It is in a >directory that has the permissions 777 because the script that is normally >in there keeps and writes traffic information, so I guess someone found a >way to have apache write the file into that directory. But how did they get >it to chmod 755?
That is a DON'T. Apache should not have write access to anything under DocumentRoot. Sorry, I know this does not help now. Joachim -- "... ein Geschlecht erfinderischer Zwerge, die fuer alles gemietet werden koennen." - Bertolt Brecht - Leben des Galilei