From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266485AbUBFVwp (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:52:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266898AbUBFVwp (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:52:45 -0500 Received: from inova102.correio.tnext.com.br ([200.222.67.102]:31946 "HELO leia-auth.correio.tnext.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266485AbUBFVwd (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:52:33 -0500 X-Analyze: Velop Mail Shield v0.0.3 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:52:29 -0200 (BRST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_L=2E_W=2E_Meunier?= <1@pervalidus.net> X-X-Sender: fredlwm@pervalidus.dyndns.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FATAL: Kernel too old In-Reply-To: <20040206152943.B26348@discworld.dyndns.org> Message-ID: References: <20040206152943.B26348@discworld.dyndns.org> X-Archive: encrypt MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Richard B. Johnson 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. -- http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html