[COLUG] Server Error

[Joshua Kramer]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:

> At first I also thought it might be a permissions problem, but it happened 
> both as root and as user computation.

Might your box have been cracked?

A LOOOONG time ago (late 90's) I had a similar problem; I noticed that all 
of the files in my /etc directory could no longer be deleted, mv'd 
(renamed), or edited (saved).  Even if I put the HD on another PC and 
mounted it under /mnt, I couldn't modify those files!  Dave Reed pointed 
me to a hidden file attribute under ext2 that, when set, would prevent 
even root from modifying files.  I forget the exact method of disabling 
this (perhaps it needs a partition reformat), and I'm not sure if it 
affects ext3 as well.  Maybe you should backup all your data and reformat?  
(ducks and runs - hate to prescribe a Windows solution to a Linux user... 
:) )

--Josh