Capt.Crow Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 For the first time ever the drawer on the tower is opening and closing of it's own volition. Two questions ? 1 have I been hacked ... 2 Where do I find the logs that will record when and maybe why this is happening . It's a very distracting nuisance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 What operating system? Did you do anything recently to your system... make any changes? install any software? etc. What are you doing when the drawer opens/closes? Anything specific? The more details you give us, the better able we'll be to help. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt.Crow Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Debian . squeeze.Updated 3wks ago. No changes. It happens without any input from me . I am writing this post and it's continually doing it. I did notice that it was taking a longer time to boot so had a look at system monitor and the cpu was running very hard . Not usual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt.Crow Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 I have two roms fitted and the one thats doing it is the generic HPackard dvd rom . The other one a Lightscribe RW is OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 There are virii that can cause this in MS Windows, but not Linux. So... Have you powered down the system and restarted it? When I say power down, I mean remove the electrical power for at least a minute, then plug back in and reboot. Will the drive actually read a disk if you put one in it? Your high CPU usage may be a clue. You need to determine what's jamming it up. This may be the related to or even the cause of the door opening and closing. See what's using up that CPU and let us know. Use your graphical task manager to see. You can also check from the command line: $ top To stop Top: using the keyboard with your terminal window in focus --> CTRL+Z, then CTRL+D twice to close the CLI 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 I agree with Eric I doubt you have been hacked. If anything, it sounds like an app is running a muck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt.Crow Posted September 24, 2014 Author Share Posted September 24, 2014 Sorry for the panic,and many thanks for solutions . Started the yoke in recovery mode . Had a look around . Backed out as nothing obvious. Restarted from run 0. No problem since. All this when everything was off for 24hrs . Still curious where the logs are . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Most logs in Linux are kept in /var/log. [size=4]vtel57@ericsbane06/var/log:$ ls[/size] ConsoleKit/ debug.2 messages.1 sa/ syslog Xorg.0.log debug.3 messages.2 samba/ syslog.1 Xorg.0.log.old dmesg messages.3 scripts/ syslog.2 btmp faillog nfsd/ secure syslog.3 btmp.1 httpd/ ntp.log secure.1 tor/ cron iptraf-ng/ nvidia-installer.log secure.2 uucp/ cron.1 lastlog packages/ secure.3 wtmp cron.2 maillog pm-powersave.log setup/ wtmp.1 cron.3 maillog.1 removed_packages/ spooler cups/ maillog.2 removed_scripts/ spooler.1 debug maillog.3 rkhunter.log spooler.2 debug.1 messages rkhunter.log.old spooler.3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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