From: Charles Cazabon <linux@discworld.dyndns.org>
To: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FATAL: Kernel too old
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:29:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040206152943.B26348@discworld.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0402061550440.681@chaos>; from root@chaos.analogic.com on Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:16:32PM -0500
Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:
>
> Script started on Fri Feb 6 15:44:32 2004
> # rlogin -l johnson quark
> ATAL: kernel too old
> # rlogin -l johnson quark
> ATAL: kernel too old
I saw something similar at a customer's site, when someone rooted the box and
replaced the default login shell with a rootkitted/backdoored one in a newer
executable format not supported by the old kernel.
> I crashed it and it rebooted fine, little fsck activity, with
> nothing in any logs that shows there was any problem whatsoever.
Did the problem go away with a reboot?
Charles
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-06 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-06 21:16 Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-06 21:29 ` Charles Cazabon [this message]
2004-02-06 21:52 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-06 22:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-06 23:22 ` Bryan Andersen
2004-02-07 6:27 ` Karl Tatgenhorst
2004-02-07 7:41 ` Andrew Walrond
2004-02-07 14:00 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
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