Mikkel,
You state that the patches should be run for RH 6.x. I have 6.1 and not sure about
what
patches you are talking about? I have not done any updates on mine either. Is this
available
on RH site? Also how do you apply a patch? Is there any specific patch that needs to
be run?
Steven
NewBee
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On 1/11/2001 at 19:21 Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Micah Yoder wrote:
>
>> Weird happenings starting last week...
>>
>> /var/log/messages has no entries since jan 5. Permission is 600, so it
>> should be writable.
>>
>> the 'userhelper' program's suid bit was taken away so I could no longer
>> halt the system as a user. I fixed that.
>>
>> the 'man' program's sgid bit was unset so i couldn't view man pages.
>> fixed that.
>>
>> I just realized while trying to start NFS that the file
>> /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs doesn't exist! nfslock does.
>>
>> When logging in on console, it prints a PAM message saying if the login
>> succeeded or failed. That didn't used to happen.
>>
>> the wtmp file seems to not be messed with.
>>
>> A day or so before it started happening i was messing with network
>> settings. But I think everything was normal for at least a day after
>> that.
>>
>> What do you think? maybe cable modems aren't all they're cracked up to
>> be.
>>
>> I am running a stock RH 6.2. I don't think I've even applied any
>> patches.
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>>
>Well, if you are on a cable modem, and you haven't installed the latest
>updates, then if you haven't been cracked, you will be! I would also
>sugest using ipchains to set up a firewall, if you haven't already.
>
>Now, for you logs. First run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog status" and see
>what if the system things syslogd and klogd are running. Then run
>"/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart" to get your logs going again. This
>should also give you some of the log messages you missed.
>
>After this, do a lot more checking to see if anything has changed.
>"rpm -Va | less" or "rpm -Va > /tmp/changed.list" is a good first step.
>
>Mikkel
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>
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