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In my shared hosting account, I noticed the following error in the Error Log of CPanel under Main Error Log.

I need to know what's the danger of this error, where we see the words victim and attacker ? and what's it mean?

[Wed Nov 14 16:26:28 2012] [error] [client xx.163.xxx.xxx] Caught race condition abuser. attacker: 2194, victim: 0 open file owner: 0, referer: http://www.orleansren.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi

Dharman
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It is probably this: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@httpd.apache.org/msg55666.html, but is probably not an issue unless you are the website listed: http://www.orleansren.com/. There was the opportunity for some one to change a symlink while it was being accessed. You seeing this message means it has been patched.

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Bad permission or ownership can also trigger this error. I have resolved it by changing ownership of my application directory. It was owned by root before.

Check file ownership by

ls -la filename

If it is not owned by your user, login as super user and change ownership.

chown myuser:myuser filename

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  • I am caught in a similar issue like this where I am unable to a delete a folder from the cpanel or to change its ownership? Wanna suggest anything? Thanks – Rahul Sep 19 '19 at 11:15
  • Check file permission by `ls -la filename`. If it is not owned by your user, login as super user and change ownership. – Harikrishnan Sep 19 '19 at 11:50
  • Every file and directory inside that folder is owned by root. I have logged in as a user. Could you please tell me how to login as a root? And please check these screenshots also https://i.imgur.com/47Qwf2l.png and https://i.imgur.com/Lf5t4Le.png – Rahul Sep 19 '19 at 12:26
  • Do a complete ownership change. `chown -R myuser:myuser homedir` – Harikrishnan Sep 23 '19 at 06:27
  • Ok let me try this – Rahul Sep 23 '19 at 06:29
  • This error came when I executed this command: "rpws is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported." – Rahul Sep 23 '19 at 06:39
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    You don't have sudo privilege. Ask your hosting support to fix this. – Harikrishnan Sep 23 '19 at 06:53