From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
To: Charles Cazabon <linux@discworld.dyndns.org>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FATAL: Kernel too old
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 17:20:10 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0402061718030.917@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040206152943.B26348@discworld.dyndns.org>
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> 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?
Sure. And if you can 'root' that machine, you are really
good! It isn't even visible to most of the company internally!
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-06 22:20 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
2004-02-06 21:52 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-06 22:20 ` Richard B. Johnson [this message]
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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