Finding a rogue script changing filenames?
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I've got a server that is used as an SFTP endpoint and a script living somewhere else that periodically uploads to the server.
At a particular time every day all the files in the upload folder get the string 'archive_' prepended to their names.
How can I go about tracking down the culprit name changing script?
I've searched through the logs in /var/cron, looked at the scripts in /etc/cron*, looked at crontab -e on all the users with a home directory, done a grep of 'archive' /home, /etc/, and /usr and nothing useful has turned up.
linux cron filenames rename sftp
asked Feb 22 at 14:52
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I've got a server that is used as an SFTP endpoint and a script living somewhere else that periodically uploads to the server.
At a particular time every day all the files in the upload folder get the string 'archive_' prepended to their names.
How can I go about tracking down the culprit name changing script?
I've searched through the logs in /var/cron, looked at the scripts in /etc/cron*, looked at crontab -e on all the users with a home directory, done a grep of 'archive' /home, /etc/, and /usr and nothing useful has turned up.
linux cron filenames rename sftp
asked Feb 22 at 14:52
d.djad.dja
164
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I've got a server that is used as an SFTP endpoint and a script living somewhere else that periodically uploads to the server.
At a particular time every day all the files in the upload folder get the string 'archive_' prepended to their names.
How can I go about tracking down the culprit name changing script?
I've searched through the logs in /var/cron, looked at the scripts in /etc/cron*, looked at crontab -e on all the users with a home directory, done a grep of 'archive' /home, /etc/, and /usr and nothing useful has turned up.
linux cron filenames rename sftp
asked Feb 22 at 14:52
d.djad.dja
164
I've got a server that is used as an SFTP endpoint and a script living somewhere else that periodically uploads to the server.
At a particular time every day all the files in the upload folder get the string 'archive_' prepended to their names.
How can I go about tracking down the culprit name changing script?
I've searched through the logs in /var/cron, looked at the scripts in /etc/cron*, looked at crontab -e on all the users with a home directory, done a grep of 'archive' /home, /etc/, and /usr and nothing useful has turned up.
linux cron filenames rename sftp
linux cron filenames rename sftp
asked Feb 22 at 14:52
d.djad.dja
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asked Feb 22 at 14:52
d.djad.dja
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Solved. The script that was pulling the files from the server was adding the text string to the file names to flag them as files that don't need to be pulled the next time around.
Thanks everyone!
answered Mar 8 at 16:34
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With root access, sysdig or similar kernel tracing facilities can reveal what program is touching particular files:
# sysdig fd.name contains archive_
and then wait with that running though you may want additional restrictions on the path of those archive files, or to use the -p flag to select what attributes about the matching processes you are interested in.
answered Feb 22 at 15:32
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Thanks! Having issues running sysdig because there's no precompiled sysdig-probe available for my kernel. Any chance there's an alternative program we can use?
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Solved. The script that was pulling the files from the server was adding the text string to the file names to flag them as files that don't need to be pulled the next time around.
Thanks everyone!
answered Mar 8 at 16:34
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Solved. The script that was pulling the files from the server was adding the text string to the file names to flag them as files that don't need to be pulled the next time around.
Thanks everyone!
answered Mar 8 at 16:34
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Solved. The script that was pulling the files from the server was adding the text string to the file names to flag them as files that don't need to be pulled the next time around.
Thanks everyone!
answered Mar 8 at 16:34
d.djad.dja
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Solved. The script that was pulling the files from the server was adding the text string to the file names to flag them as files that don't need to be pulled the next time around.
Thanks everyone!
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With root access, sysdig or similar kernel tracing facilities can reveal what program is touching particular files:
# sysdig fd.name contains archive_
and then wait with that running though you may want additional restrictions on the path of those archive files, or to use the -p flag to select what attributes about the matching processes you are interested in.
answered Feb 22 at 15:32
thrigthrig
25.1k23257
Thanks! Having issues running sysdig because there's no precompiled sysdig-probe available for my kernel. Any chance there's an alternative program we can use?
– d.dja
Feb 25 at 15:00
add a comment |
With root access, sysdig or similar kernel tracing facilities can reveal what program is touching particular files:
# sysdig fd.name contains archive_
and then wait with that running though you may want additional restrictions on the path of those archive files, or to use the -p flag to select what attributes about the matching processes you are interested in.
answered Feb 22 at 15:32
thrigthrig
25.1k23257
Thanks! Having issues running sysdig because there's no precompiled sysdig-probe available for my kernel. Any chance there's an alternative program we can use?
– d.dja
Feb 25 at 15:00
add a comment |
With root access, sysdig or similar kernel tracing facilities can reveal what program is touching particular files:
# sysdig fd.name contains archive_
and then wait with that running though you may want additional restrictions on the path of those archive files, or to use the -p flag to select what attributes about the matching processes you are interested in.
answered Feb 22 at 15:32
thrigthrig
25.1k23257
With root access, sysdig or similar kernel tracing facilities can reveal what program is touching particular files:
# sysdig fd.name contains archive_
and then wait with that running though you may want additional restrictions on the path of those archive files, or to use the -p flag to select what attributes about the matching processes you are interested in.
answered Feb 22 at 15:32
thrigthrig
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answered Feb 22 at 15:32
thrigthrig
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answered Feb 22 at 15:32
thrigthrig
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answered Feb 22 at 15:32
thrigthrig
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Thanks! Having issues running sysdig because there's no precompiled sysdig-probe available for my kernel. Any chance there's an alternative program we can use?
– d.dja
Feb 25 at 15:00
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Thanks! Having issues running sysdig because there's no precompiled sysdig-probe available for my kernel. Any chance there's an alternative program we can use?
– d.dja
Feb 25 at 15:00
Thanks! Having issues running sysdig because there's no precompiled sysdig-probe available for my kernel. Any chance there's an alternative program we can use?
– d.dja
Feb 25 at 15:00
Thanks! Having issues running sysdig because there's no precompiled sysdig-probe available for my kernel. Any chance there's an alternative program we can use?
– d.dja
Feb 25 at 15:00
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