Uh oh.  Finding an a.out in your /var/log/httpd doesn't instill
a warm fuzzy feeling.

I have ~ 4k a.out there dated Oct 12, which unfortunately is just past
my logrotate cutoff now, so I can't check access.log (drat) without
hitting the (hard to hit) backups.

file a.out 
a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

I fired up a live-cd linux with no disks or net attached to try to run
it (I put it on a usb stick).  But when I do *the shell* returns ENOENT
and won't run.  I tried ./a.out.  I tried moving it to a fs that
shouldn't be mounted noexec.  I tried strace a.out and strace ./a.out
and strace shows only the exec attempt and the error print and quit.

Huh?  How can I get this thing to run?

Anyway to see what it is doing?  Disassemble?  It is not stripped, so
gdb?  How can I step-run it
from the start (ie nothing executes until I
step)?

What else to do with this file?

I'll see if I can dig up the access.log from that date and get more
details.

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