Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Erik Bourget wrote: > >> I had a very bizarre situation where four boxes in the same rack all >> simultaneously (within 30 minutes) hard-locked with Oops messages. The >> boxes > > An obvious idea - after reading an article about a break-in into Debian > and others' boxes - sure you weren't cracked? Yeah, that was a concern and I'm relatively sure that's not the case because *) chkrootkit says so (mod some hidden processes that are reported by a bug in chkrootkit according to Google) *) The crashy boxes were all installed with 2.4.23, not upgraded, so the big Debian vulnerability didn't exist *) The only open ports to the outside world are running SMTP and POP3 as non-root no-shell accounts, and it's running qmail which seems simple and safe enough. - Erik Bourget
