A Sun E6500 had a problem with one of the system boards. After replacing the board the system was pretty unstable. Some things will work but others will not: 1) Telnet to the machine would not work, but from the machine to others will. 2) ftp worked in/out 3) CDE will not come up. 4) netstat -r will hang 5) lsof will hang 6) ps -ef will start but hang. 7) modinfo will start but hang at the end. I did found the /etc/hosts file truncated and the /etc/defaultrouter was missing. After fixing this nothing changed. I checked /etc/nsswitch.com, /etc/defaultrouter, ifconfig -a, and everything was in place. I ran chkrootkit and found nothing on the system. The RC3 scripts never finished so we were in between level2 and level3. Would this be the behavior of a comprised machine ? How if that was the cause, made it happen ? This machine is in a secure area -- not military -- and only production support folks have acces to it -- DBAs and SAs. SAs have root password, but not DBAs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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