[ale] diagnosis

[James P. Kinney III]

I put up a page with the binaries and source on it :

http://www.localnetsolutions.com/tools/

Note: the procps page on sourceforge did not have an md5 checksum. 

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 20:02, David Corbin wrote:
> On Monday 19 April 2004 15:01, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > If it is a cracked machine, running a statically linked top from a CD
> > will gain access to the real top data. Top is a common binary to fiddle
> > with with a root kit.
> 
> Sounds reasonable.  Can you point me at such, or if not that, anybody got any 
> idea where the source to top is and I'll build my own.
> 
> >
> > It is certainly possible to _add_ a module or _remove_ a module, but
> > change out the kernel with out a reboot (unless 2-kernel-monte is
> > available, I have not been able to find this :(  ). So the actual data
> > stream for top is not tamper-able easily. Thus a known good
> > statically-linked top would give access to the running system and show
> > the _real_ processes that are running.
> >
> > If top shows no malicious files, it's time to take some snapshots over
> > time to plot which app is failing.
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > echo date >> /tmp/top.txt
> > top -b -n 1 -c >> /tmp/top.txt
> > echo "###############" >>/tmp/top.txt
> > echo >>/tmp/top.txt
> > echo >>/tmp/top.txt
> >
> > Run as a cron every minute for an hour.
> >
> > If you want, you can now mash/mangle the data into a nice plot using
> > some perl and gnplot (or a spreadsheet).
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 11:56, Geoffrey wrote:
> > > Dow Hurst wrote:
> > > > How can we find the process that is soaking the memory?  How do you
> > > > manipulate /proc to find out the originating process that owns the
> > > > memory being used?  I know IRIX had tools to look at memory and see
> > > > which processes owned what part of memory.  Does Linux?
> > > >
> > > > Seems if you knew what was leaking you would have a major part of the
> > > > battle won.
> > >
> > > I believe we mentioned top, but he noted that doesn't give him anything.
> > >   That's what concerns me.  If it doesn't show, is it being hidden for a
> > > reason???
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