I have a RaQ4r and this file appears inside the log folder of a domain name on my server. This is really odd since I'm sure that no such file was ever uploaded or downloaded into this domain name's log folder. What's even more odd is that web.log.1.gz file is not located on any other domain names except this one. I try to delete this file, but CuteFTP is saying that I am not authorized to delete this file even though I'm the server administrator.

Question:

1) Was this file put there by a hacker? How can I tell?
2) Is this file created automatically by the RaQ 4r?
3) Will deleting it damage the domain name / server?
4) How do I delete it/

Any help from this forum is greatly appreciated.

the web.log.1.gz is the compressed log from last months , pretty soon all of the sites will have one of those in gzipped format.


hope this helps :)

Try "locate web.log.1.gz" via telnet to find all the similar files on your web server. As elijah pointed out, you don't need to delete this file, but if you wanted to you can telnet into your server, type "su" to switch to root, then rm /home/sites/siteXX/logs/web.log.1.gz