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Austin, > > Do you have any idea how those log files got to be owned by root? > > I haven't the slightest idea. This was the second time forcing their > ownership back to ldm. The ldm user doesn't have sudo capability, and I > can't think of any other causes. Very strange. > iptables is set to log rejected incoming connections and End of chains > warnings, so most of /var/log/messages consists of UDP Connection > attempts and End of chains messages for a couple of local IARC machines. > Otherwise the only other messages (going back to messages.6.gz) are the > same as those in the ldm log files. I've copied the latest message file > into the ldm home directory (it's about 900K) if you'd like to take a look. We didn't find anything in the /var/log/messages file that was useful. Our sysadmin would like to do some TCP profiling on your system. Is there any chance of our getting root access on that system? > > I noticed a bunch of VMware stuff. Is this a Windows system on which > > you're running Linux? > > The opposite. Linux system with VMware running Windows. Interesting. > Austin > > -- > Austin Cross > Graduate Student / Research Assistant > International Arctic Research Center > University of Alaska Fairbanks > Phone: 907-474-2415 Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: FKC-383851 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: On Hold