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Hi all respondees,<br>
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Thank you all for for your advice, recommendations and guidance. I
have been searching high and low for the cause since the last post and
have finally deduced the cause!<br>
<br>
Human Error - on my part.<br>
<br>
I did a remote ssh login to the server and forgot to 'su' to root to
modify the /etc/hosts.deny file therefore I had the wrong permissions.
Duh!<br>
<br>
For a horrible few moments I thought the server had been violated -
nasty thought - won't go there!<br>
<br>
Anyway, I appreciate your help. Thank you.<br>
<br>
Alan<br>
<br>
Andrew Clayton wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:56:10 +0100, Alan S Frost wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Thanks Gordon for the speedy response.
I have no problems with any of the files within /etc only the /etc
attributes.
Yesterday (11th Oct) when I first became aware of the situation it it
locked down (made read-only) all of the files in the /etc tree until
I rebooted the server this morning. I am now able to read & write to
files in the /etc tree successfully. The "lsattr /etc" attributes
still remain the same though "----------I-- /etc". As you will see
from my previous post this problem also affected "/sbin" directory as
well. I have searched high and low on the web and have not found a
suitable reason for the cause nor a solution.
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I don't know what your problem was, but as I said, it's not the I
flag. The I flag means that the directory is using htree indexing
to speed up file lookup. It's quite normal and desired.
It does sound like your filesystem got (re)mounted read-only. I'd check
your logs for any errors. You may find soon your filesystem won't mount
at all!
Hope that clarifies it.
Andrew
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