On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 08:37:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just a moment ago I noticed a bunch of zero-length files in my / directory, > all named 'errs' followed by 6 random characters [...] I've got no idea what > may have created these files, and I'm wondering if this is a sign of a > possible security compromise.
Not necessarily. From a quick search it looks like lpd is a likely culprit, http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=6285770&list=216 -- Colin Phipps PGP 0x689E463E http://www.netcraft.com/
