[wplug] Input/output error

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Sunday 24 August 2003 22:36, Ryan Brown wrote:
> This is driving me crazy... I keep getting Input/output error errors when I
> run commands such as "ls", etc.

I've seen this with corrupted system libraries. If for any reason the 
libraries that "ls" needs (ldd /bin/ls) are not available, or simply corrupt, 
it throws such messages.

The fact that a reboot fixes it, is pretty weird. I'd either look for 
malicious activity or get/create a statically compiled lsof/strace (see 
http://www.incident-response.org) to run diagnostics when the errors appear.

Filesystem checks, as already suggested, aren't a bad idea either.

-A
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