Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (564 mails)

[Michael Long <michaellong@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am running SuSE 7.0 w/ cable modem and SuSE firewall. This evening while 
working on the system the mouse and keyboard quit responding and the 
harddrive started working very hard. Performed ctrl+alt+<backspace> to exit 
kde2, was successful after a minute or two. next changed from tty2 to tty1 
(logged in as root) performed 'ps aux' did ctrl+page up and the terminal 
became filled with line pattern. Harddrive working hard during this time. 
Rebooted machine, did 'tail -f /var/log/messages' and got the following:

Jan 21 18:52:41 zues init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Jan 21 18:52:53 zues exportfs[32752]: could not open /proc/fs/nfs/exports for 
locking
Jan 21 18:52:57 zues exiting on signal 15                                     

Now when I 'su' it is not logged in the file (it was before this incident). I 
am a newbie to linux and firewall security so any comments or hints to get 
the answers to the following questions will be greatly appreciated.

What does this exerpt from /var/log/messages mean? 
Why don't I have any entries in the log when I su to another user?
Shouldn't I be getting some messages that relate to the firewall?

Thanks in advance,
Mike