On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 10:05 -0500, Lovell Mcilwain wrote: > Hey guys, > > Can you give me some input on whether I have been hacked or not? > > I logged into my machine via ssh and found that I couldn't run any > commands and got a input/output error. I couldn't run the who command > to see if anyone else was logged into my machine and I couldn't check my > firestarter log to see if I have been breached. > > I was able to run an ls -al and found that a lot of my permissions had > ???? as the owner. My gnome interface is pretty much disappeared and > all I see is the background. I can't shut down this machine because the > halt and shutdown commands are not recognized (I get the same > input/output error) Sounds more like a hard drive/filesystem error. If you can run dmesg, try that and see if you notice any errors in it. Then I suggest you try booting from a rescue disk to view your logs (especially /var/log/messages), fsck, grab important files, etc.
