"Chad C.Walstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, I should give you more background than this. These are not > symbolic links. This is a screwed up ext2 filesystem. There was either > a runaway sendmail process or a runaway mailman process that dumped some > nasties into /var. I'm seeing corruption most likely from a sircam > virus or some such thing.
No user process can (or at least should be able to) corrupt a filesystem. The likely causes are hardware failure or a kernel bug. Look for those. You might try looking for help on the linux kernel mailing list. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! The meek shall inherit the earth; the rest of us, the Universe.