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On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Michael Perry wrote:
I had a rather ugly time the last few days and I really still do not know what to attribute it to. I initially lost a number of programs which had been working quite well such as ical, tkman, etc. These just disappeared completely in the course of one day. I did not run yast or change any configuration options. I then started noticing that things like libs were missing, symlinks were gone, path statements seemed wierd.
My system was nothing more than garbage and I got a number of kernel panics. I tried the rescue disks and could not get things back to any semblence of reality. To make matters worse, I had to use NT :).
I am still kind of looking at what happened and how it happened. Linux is my only operating system at home. I also lost a bunch of recent changes to a database application but luckily I back that up nightly. Close thing since I demo'ed it after this stuff happened and I was able to recoup my losses.
So, has anyone ever experienced this sort of thing? I have a pretty good backup strategy (I thought). Not good enough by a damn site though, it appears.
If your machine in any way is connected to a network I'd start here --> I have wondered a few times if the system were hacked or semi-destroyed... <--
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