intrusion? find is thrashing my disk every time I boot.

[Christian Walther]

2008/6/4 Steve Franks <stevefranks at ieee.org>:
> I'm really no security expert.  I don't leave the system up 24/7, and
> I'm on a US DSL connection with a bunch of windows boxes.
>
> Seems to be a recent phenomena, I've started experiencing disk
> thrashing I can hear across the room.  ps and top report cvslockd has
> been responsible for the thrashing (which usually occurs at a specific
> time of day (~1 am MST)), but now, find is doing the thrashing at boot
> every time (within the last week at least).  Needless to say, I
> haven't changed the system in any way during that week.  On windows,
> I'd just assume this to be normal behavior, but on FreeBSD, it's got
> me worried...
>
I doubt that this is a security issue, but I think you've a silent
filesystem corruption. Best thing to do would be to boot to single
user and check all filesystems manually to make sure that there isn't
anything that goes unnoticed.

HTH
Christian