Hi
(my server is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

I recently had a (benign?) shell fork bomb incident, which I managed to correct with this command:

while (sleep 100 &!) do; done

However, my server now shows this document in my user directory, which was created at the time of the shell bomb:

sedd6GOTx

Anybody know what this might be?

I can't delete it nor can I open it with a text editor

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Have you tried doing so as root?

James

Cheers James

Yes that is what I have done...simples javascript:emoticon(':lol:')

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Give us the results of "ls -la" and "lsattr" on one of these files.

I opened the file and it was a load of bash commands that had been involved in the shell fork.

so I just cli:

<rm sedd6GOTx>

seems to have resolved the issue

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You told that you couldn't delete it?

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