[SunHELP] strange ls behaviour

[Sandwich Maker]

"From: Sven.Hartrumpf at FernUni-Hagen.de
"
"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). 

also try /usr/ucb/ls, as it is also often overlooked by rootkit
attacks.
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