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  From: Ben Williams <benw@webmedia.com.au>
  To  : Marcfive <marcfive@optusnet.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:52:05 +0930

Re: Unusual log file

On 29/04/2003 2:39 PM, Marcfive wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've just notice an extra log file on my system.
> It's named \ and has a date of 22 Apr and is 861 bytes.
> I can not cat/less/vi this file.
> Can anyone give me any pointers?
> Have I been compromised?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark.
> 

you may be able to vi this file by calling
	vi '\'
or even
	vi \\

(slash is an escape character; thus, to use it, you have to stop the 
shell from expanding it (i.e. enclose it in '') or escape it yourself 
(i.e. use \\).)

as for the question of being compromised, i don't know.

  - Ben
--
There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, 
and those who don't.

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