[SunHELP] strange ls behaviour

Sven.Hartrumpf at FernUni-Hagen.de Sven.Hartrumpf at FernUni-Hagen.de
Thu Jul 10 06:07:47 CDT 2003


On 10 Jul 2003, "Simon Jespersen" <shj at pine.dk> wrote: 

> Hi on my blade 100 sol8 box i have a very strange behaviour.
> 
> when i try to list my sendmail files it doens shows up
> 
> ls -l send*
> 
> gives no response,
> 
> find . -name "send*" -print
> 
> gives no repsonse
> 
> but if i do a
> 
> file send*
> 
> i can see that the sendmail configurations file are there and i can edit
> them in vi.

Please check the integrity of ls and find (sizes, dates, md5sum's, etc.) -
just to be sure.
These binaries are often manipulated in so-called root kits (while 'file'
is normally not affected). 

Greetings
Sven



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