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doctorsexy
10-16-2011, 04:53 PM
Can anyone shed some light on this. i found this file on my server and wondered if anyone could tell me if they recognised it...
i deleted it and it came back ... not being an expert ..any help would be great..thanks

zdberre969812788e8e932ad3521bbed9f11e7.dat
nerbert
10-16-2011, 04:57 PM
I've seen stuff like that. I think it's some odd glitch that happens sometimes when you save a file after editing. I think you can just delete it.
souperman
10-16-2011, 11:55 PM
Where was this file located to? What part of your web dir.
doctorsexy
10-17-2011, 08:23 AM
It was on the root .. came back 3 times after being deleted ..just to be sure i changed server passwords and replaced config, forum, content and index files ....also got the too many connections error yesterday and the database locked up ... hasnt come back yet...fingers crossed

the file has this in it 13187564430
setishock
10-17-2011, 10:08 AM
Ask your host about it.
doctorsexy
10-17-2011, 11:14 AM
They dont want to know....
kh99
10-17-2011, 01:42 PM
Kind of looks like something's using that directory for a temp file instead of the system temp directory (but I have no idea how you'd figure out which program was doing it).
setishock
10-17-2011, 04:03 PM
A mod maybe?
souperman
10-18-2011, 04:15 AM
You can try to lock your root dir and see how programs react to it. Care to post your top -c command?
doctorsexy
10-21-2011, 07:55 AM
i got this last night and the file came back...

Database error in vBulletin :

mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]: Too many connections
/home/linnas01/g/groovie-baby.co.uk-22900666/user/htdocs/includes/class_core.php on line 314

MySQL Error :
Error Number :
Request Date : Thursday, October 20th 2011 @ 11:29:04 PM
Error Date : Thursday, October 20th 2011 @ 11:29:04 PM
Script : http://www.groovie-baby.co.uk/register.php?do=addmember
Referrer : http://www.groovie-baby.co.uk/register.php?
IP Address : 186.205.255.218
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :
souperman
10-22-2011, 01:24 AM
That's most likely not the cause of the random file. Do a ls -l
to see who owns the file, and what time it was created.


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