[ale] Long lag for command line

Michael Potter michael at potter.name
Fri Jun 28 22:53:37 EDT 2013


strace -fto strace.out vi

then look at the log file (strace.out) to see where it is hanging.




On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> integrit and rkhunter both run every day (late at night) and no intrusions
> have been detected.  I'll double check it but since the machine is pretty
> much isolated from the outside world it would be tough to hack (access from
> outside exists only via ssh tunnels and the ssh endpoint is a different
> machine).
>
>
> On 6/28/2013 17:49, Chuck Payne wrote:
>>
>> Not to be the Devil, but have you done lsof on vi to see if any other
>> process are running? I am not saying you are hack, but a lag on a
>> program couple be several things. The first thing rule out that your
>> vi has been swap out. About 16 years ago, when I ran a linux box with
>> our a firewall and shut down unused ports. I got owned. My ls got
>> swapped out. it still did ls commands but it was doing nasty things. I
>> only found out because I ran losf and saw that it was running other
>> programs as ls.
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