Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!vela!schemers From: schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Process Table Corrupt? Keywords: ps, kmem, 4.0, 6310 Message-ID: <3754@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 8 Nov 90 20:40:27 GMT References: <3752@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <15722@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III) Distribution: usa Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI Lines: 83 In article <15722@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes: >In article <3752@vela.acs.oakland.edu> schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III) writes: >> Hello! We have a VAX 6000/310 running Ultrix 4.0 (rev 179), and >> twice since we have installed it in Augest the process table has >> become corrupt! A bunch of system processes were all of a sudden >> owned by a student (different student in both cases)! Here is > > >It's probably not process table corruption, but rather corruption >of the utmp file. This used to happen a lot, but it much better >now. I would like to agree, but what about the error messages in the syslog file: Nov 7 14:44:50 localhost: 27036 named: bind(vs, 0.0.0.0[53]): Permission denied Nov 7 14:44:53 localhost: 27075 sendmail: AA27040: to=wjyoung@vela.acs.oakland.edu, delay=00:00:07, stat=Sent Nov 7 14:44:54 localhost: 27087 sendmail: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: getrequests: cannot bind: Address already in use Nov 7 14:44:54 localhost: 27087 sendmail: cannot get connection Nov 7 14:45:02 localhost: 27161 snmpd: Start snmpd version 3.2 at Wed Nov 7 14:45:01 1990 Nov 7 14:45:02 localhost: Nov 7 14:45:03 localhost: 27161 snmpd: /dev/kmem: cannot open Nov 7 14:45:03 localhost: 27161 snmpd: main: problems in init_kmem Nov 7 14:45:04 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty std.9600 /dev/console' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:04 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty08' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:04 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty09' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:04 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty10' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:05 localhost: getty: /dev/console: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:05 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty11' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:05 localhost: getty: /dev/tty08: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:05 localhost: getty: /dev/tty09: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:05 localhost: getty: /dev/tty10: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:06 localhost: getty: /dev/tty11: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:06 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty12' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:07 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty13' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:07 localhost: getty: /dev/tty12: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:07 localhost: getty could not set pgrp, Not owner Nov 7 14:45:08 localhost: getty: /dev/tty13: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:08 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty15' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:09 localhost: getty: /dev/tty15: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:09 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty16' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:09 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty17' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:10 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty18' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:10 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty19' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:10 localhost: getty: /dev/tty16: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:11 localhost: getty: /dev/tty17: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:11 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty21' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:11 localhost: getty: /dev/tty18: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:11 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty20' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:11 localhost: getty: /dev/tty19: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:12 localhost: getty: /dev/tty21: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:13 localhost: getty: /dev/tty20: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:14 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty22' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:14 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty23' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:15 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty24' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:15 localhost: getty: /dev/tty22: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:16 localhost: getty: /dev/tty23: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:16 localhost: getty: /dev/tty24: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:19 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty28' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:19 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty25' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:19 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty26' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:19 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty27' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:20 localhost: getty: /dev/tty26: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:20 localhost: getty: /dev/tty25: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:21 localhost: getty: /dev/tty28: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:21 localhost: getty: /dev/tty27: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:21 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty29' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:22 localhost: getty: /dev/tty29: Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:22 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty30' open failed Permission denied Nov 7 14:45:23 localhost: getty: /dev/tty30: Permission denied Along with the fact that there were two processes one owned by root and one by the student. Some suggested that maybe the student was playing around and executing files in /etc. I tried running /etc/init and some others as myself on my VAXstation 3140, and couldn't recreate the problem. Roland -- Roland J. Schemers III Systems Programmer schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ultrix) Oakland University schemers@argo.acs.oakland.edu (VMS) Rochester, MI 48309-4401 ~Disclaimer::Disclaimer() { reboot(RB_HALT); } (313)-370-4323