[wplug] Mystery CVS folder

[Brian S. Woolstrum]

Well, you can rarely be too paranoid when it comes to your
computer.  But, in this case I think you are ok.  To me it
looks like you've downloaded

http://www.gentoo.org/images/icons/icons.tar.bz2

and then untarred it inside of your home directory.  It is
a very sloppy tar file, since it doesn't create it's own
directory to live in.  It should also not have been created
with a CVS directory inside of it, and especially not with
another icons.tar.bz2 also inside of it (neither one of
which are your fault of course).  It is a good idea to
examine tar files before extracting their files, with
either "less icons.tar.bz2" or "tar -jtvvf icons.tar.bz2".
Being a .bz2 the j in the -jtvvf might be a y or i
depending on your system.

If after examining the structure of the tar, you find that
it doesn't create a nice tidy subdirectory you should
create one for it and then cd into that directory before
doing the extracting.

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Gentgeen wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 20:32:17 -0400
> From: Gentgeen <gentgeen at linuxmail.org>
> Reply-To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
> To: wplug <wplug at wplug.org>
> Subject: [wplug] Mystery CVS folder
>
> Today I noticed a folder in my home directory call CVS (yes all caps)
>
> The real problem is I have no idea how it got there.  I looked inside
> and found the following files:
>
> -rw-r--r--    1 kevin    kevin       20189 Dec 23 20:35 Entries
> -rw-r--r--    1 kevin    kevin         306 May  1 12:46 Entries.Log
> -rw-r--r--    1 kevin    kevin          24 Jun 29  2003 Repository
> -rw-r--r--    1 kevin    kevin          34 Jun 29  2003 Root
>
> I pretty sure that the Entries.log timestamp is just because I opened it
> with NANO to read it.  I read the other files with less.  I have only
> used CVS once, and that was in April.  When I look at the Entries file,
> I see various files that I used to have on my system, all from a gentoo
> icons package I was checking out some exaples:
>
> /l33t_BRO_iexplore3.png/1.1/Sun Mar  2 16:01:19 2003//
> /l33t_BRO_konqueror.png/1.1/Sun Mar  2 16:01:19 2003//
> /l33t_BRO_lynx.png/1.1/Sun Mar  2 16:01:19 2003//
> /l33t_BRO_moz.png/1.1/Sun Mar  2 16:01:19 2003//
> /l33t_BRO_mozilla.png/1.2/Thu Mar 20 19:04:36 2003//
>
> When I looked at the Entries.log file, I have NO IDEA what is going on
> there.  The full file is below:
>
>    A D/DuF////
>    A D/Hi-Pi////
>    A D/L-Chamber////
>    A D/bud1979////
>    A D/dufnutz////
>    A D/linux4god////
>    A D/port001////
>    A D/slapcat////
>    A D/zypher////
>    R D/zypher////
>    R D/slapcat////
>    R D/port001////
>    R D/linux4god////
>    R D/dufnutz////
>    R D/bud1979////
>    R D/L-Chamber////
>    R D/Hi-Pi////
>    R D/DuF////
>    A D/atmelwlandriver////
>
> What the H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks is going on here?  Have I been rooted,
> or am I just paranoid?
>
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Brian S. Woolstrum   AB3BT
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