Hi, Some time ago Chris was trying to track down some cracker using perl to breach his system: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Chris <chris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Is changing the filesystem type an option? You could temporarily >> create a new non-extn filesystem on a free partition and mount it on >> /tmp. >> In that case, you could set the undeletable attribute on /tmp >> ("chattr +U /tmp"). It will be inherited by any file created there. >> Problem is that extn doesn't honour the attribute, though you could >> patch it if you prefer (cf. http://lwn.net/Articles/211193/). How did it work out? Were you able to mount undeletable? Did you find out which files they were? Do you now have plans to rebuild the system? Best, Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html