Process Table Corrupt?

[Roland Schemers III]

In article <15722 at cbmvax.commodore.com> grr at cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <3752 at vela.acs.oakland.edu> schemers at vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III) writes:
>> Hello! We have a VAX 6000/310 running Ultrix 4.0 (rev 179), and
>> twice since we have installed it in Augest the process table has
>> become corrupt! A bunch of system processes were all of a sudden
>> owned by a student (different student in both cases)! Here is
>
>
>It's probably not process table corruption, but rather corruption
>of the utmp file.  This used to happen a lot, but it much better
>now.

I would like to agree, but what about the error messages in the syslog
file:

Nov  7 14:44:50 localhost: 27036 named: bind(vs, 0.0.0.0[53]): Permission denied
Nov  7 14:44:53 localhost: 27075 sendmail: AA27040: to=wjyoung at vela.acs.oakland.edu, delay=00:00:07, stat=Sent
Nov  7 14:44:54 localhost: 27087 sendmail: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: getrequests: cannot bind: Address already in use
Nov  7 14:44:54 localhost: 27087 sendmail: cannot get connection
Nov  7 14:45:02 localhost: 27161 snmpd: Start snmpd version 3.2 at Wed Nov  7 14:45:01 1990
Nov  7 14:45:02 localhost: 
Nov  7 14:45:03 localhost: 27161 snmpd: /dev/kmem: cannot open
Nov  7 14:45:03 localhost: 27161 snmpd: main: problems in init_kmem
Nov  7 14:45:04 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty std.9600 /dev/console' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:04 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty08' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:04 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty09' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:04 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty10' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:05 localhost: getty: /dev/console: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:05 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty11' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:05 localhost: getty: /dev/tty08: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:05 localhost: getty: /dev/tty09: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:05 localhost: getty: /dev/tty10: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:06 localhost: getty: /dev/tty11: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:06 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty12' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:07 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty13' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:07 localhost: getty: /dev/tty12: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:07 localhost: getty could not set pgrp, Not owner
Nov  7 14:45:08 localhost: getty: /dev/tty13: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:08 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty15' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:09 localhost: getty: /dev/tty15: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:09 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty16' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:09 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty17' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:10 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty18' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:10 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty19' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:10 localhost: getty: /dev/tty16: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:11 localhost: getty: /dev/tty17: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:11 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty21' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:11 localhost: getty: /dev/tty18: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:11 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty20' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:11 localhost: getty: /dev/tty19: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:12 localhost: getty: /dev/tty21: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:13 localhost: getty: /dev/tty20: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:14 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty22' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:14 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty23' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:15 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty24' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:15 localhost: getty: /dev/tty22: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:16 localhost: getty: /dev/tty23: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:16 localhost: getty: /dev/tty24: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:19 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty28' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:19 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty25' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:19 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty26' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:19 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty27' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:20 localhost: getty: /dev/tty26: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:20 localhost: getty: /dev/tty25: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:21 localhost: getty: /dev/tty28: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:21 localhost: getty: /dev/tty27: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:21 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty29' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:22 localhost: getty: /dev/tty29: Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:22 localhost: getty: '/etc/getty H /dev/tty30' open failed Permission denied
Nov  7 14:45:23 localhost: getty: /dev/tty30: Permission denied

Along with the fact that there were two processes one owned by
root and one by the student. Some suggested that maybe the student
was playing around and executing files in /etc. I tried running
/etc/init and some others as myself on my VAXstation 3140, and 
couldn't recreate the problem.

Roland
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Roland J. Schemers III                              Systems Programmer 
schemers at vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ultrix)              Oakland University 
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