On 11-Jan-2001 Micah Yoder opined:
> 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.
Could be the cause.
> What do you think? maybe cable modems aren't all they're cracked up to
> be.
Are you firewalling it OK? That would be a great idea if you aren't.
There are pages that will test you ports for you and show what is open,
closed or refused.
> I am running a stock RH 6.2. I don't think I've even applied any
> patches.
What about linuxconf? I hate to sound like a broken record on this but,
new people show up daily: LINUXCONF CAN BE AND FREQUENTLY IS DANGEROUS.
Not everybody has problems. Enough do that it should be treated as
pre-alpha at best.
--
I've given up trying to change the world. I'm going to toilet train
it so that I never have to change it again.
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