[PLUG] Even root can't write to /tmp?!

[Phil Tomson]

On 16 Dec 2002, Brent Rieck wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 12:08, Phil Tomson wrote:
> > /var and /tmp are on seperate partitions on this machine.  /tmp is in the
> > / partition and /var has it's own partition (not sure why I did it this
> > way ).  / has at least 150MB free.  But now I can't tell how much is free
> > in /var since the 'df' command, which worked last night, is now
> > segfaulting.  This is starting to look like a hardware problem, probably a
> > hard drive going bad.
>
> you may have been hacked - I had some very similar behavior when I was.
> If you're so inclined, check to see if df has been replaced by a
> 'special' version.
>

Hmmmm.... I was starting to get kind of suspicous that it could be
something like that, but I'm on dialup.  I suppose it's possible to be
hacked on dialup, just seems a bit less likely.

Phil