[dundee] Fedora Core 3 htree error

[Alan S Frost]

Hi all respondees,

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!

Human Error - on my part.

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!

For a horrible few moments I thought the server had been violated - 
nasty thought - won't go there!

Anyway, I appreciate your help. Thank you.

Alan

Andrew Clayton wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:56:10 +0100, Alan S Frost wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> 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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