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When running 'cp' command to copy a file from one directory to
another, it just hangs (files are not that big).  Same thing happens
with 'ls -al' command.

Where do I need to look to see what is going on ?  Do I need to
refresh any daemon ?

Thank you in advance.

KP

Quote:> When running 'cp' command to copy a file from one directory to
> another, it just hangs (files are not that big).  Same thing happens
> with 'ls -al' command.

> Where do I need to look to see what is going on ?  Do I need to
> refresh any daemon ?

> Thank you in advance.

> KP

Use truss to see what it's doing at the time it hangs.

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Does it hang when you use the command 'ls -an'?

If not, then the difference is in looking up the numeric owner
and group id in your naming service to find the owner and group
names.

I don't know why this would affect cp.

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Perhaps the naming service is also causing it to *if a file
already exists?

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- Resolved.

It turned out that when our machine was attacked, /usr/bin/cp was
replaced by some other "cp" command which must be grep'ing out few
files so they do not show up when we do listing.

I copied "cp" from our backup and everying is working fine now.

Thank you all for your responses.

|It turned out that when our machine was attacked, /usr/bin/cp was
|replaced by some other "cp" command which must be grep'ing out few
|files so they do not show up when we do listing.

That is why you need to do a complete reinstall/restore from backup when
a machine is compromised, as attackers will install as many backdoors
and trojan horses as they can to enable them to continue using the
machine even if you patch the security hole they originally exploited.

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But cp doesn't list files.  Did you mean ls?

  -Greg
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