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From: "Frédéric L. W. Meunier" <1@pervalidus.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FATAL: Kernel too old
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:52:29 -0200 (BRST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402061948590.2139@pervalidus.dyndns.org> (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:

Hmm, getmail's author doing this :-) ?

> > 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 think it's also what you get if you compile glibc with, say,
--enable-kernel=2.4.20 and boot 2.4.19 and earlier. But in your
case, probably the above.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-06 21:52 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 [this message]
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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