Re: extra .. folder in /dev

2000-09-01 Thread Alexander Hvostov
Wesley, e2fsck -f should find and clean that up, but I _strongly_ advise you to reinstall completely. Rooted boxes are like some forms of cancer -- no matter how hard you try, you just can't get the disease (or the script kiddie, in your case) to go away. Reinstallation is your only real option.

Re: extra .. folder in /dev

2000-09-01 Thread Jim Breton
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:39:04PM -0400, Wesley A. Wannemacher wrote: I have a Linux machine that has been recently rooted. I have found many strange things on the Why is there an extra '..'? There was also a Most likely one of them is really named .. or something like that. Check for

Re: extra .. folder in /dev

2000-09-01 Thread Sune Kirkeby
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:39:04PM -0400, Wesley A. Wannemacher wrote: Help (if it is not too much trouble). I have a Linux machine that has been recently rooted. I have found many strange things on the hard drive of the server. when doing an 'ls -la' in the /dev folder I see the

RE: extra .. folder in /dev

2000-09-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Sep-2000 Wesley A. Wannemacher wrote: drwxr-xr-x 7 root root34816 Sep 1 14:27 . drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1024 Sep 1 14:34 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jul 15 11:22 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root26450 Apr 17 1999 MAKEDEV -rwxr-xr-x

Re: extra .. folder in /dev

2000-09-01 Thread Chester Hosey
I'd imagine that there is a space following the .. in the second entry. Thus: ., .., .. , MAKEDEV, . . . The simplest way to delete the second .. should be: rm ..?* The question mark will expand to whatever character follows the .., and the * will take care of whatever follows. Although after

Re: extra .. folder in /dev

2000-09-01 Thread Matthew H. Ray
Wesley A. Wannemacher wrote: Help (if it is not too much trouble). I have a Linux machine that has been recently rooted. I have found many strange things on the hard drive of the server. when doing an 'ls -la' in the /dev folder I see the following: drwxr-xr-x 7 root root

extra .. folder in /dev

2000-09-01 Thread Wesley A. Wannemacher
Help (if it is not too much trouble). I have a Linux machine that has been recently rooted. I have found many strange things on the hard drive of the server. when doing an 'ls -la' in the /dev folder I see the following: drwxr-xr-x 7 root root34816 Sep 1 14:27 . drwxr-xr-x 20