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From: Charles Cazabon <linux@discworld.dyndns.org>
To: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FATAL: Kernel too old
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:29:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040206152943.B26348@discworld.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0402061550440.681@chaos>; from root@chaos.analogic.com on Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:16:32PM -0500

Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 crashed it and it rebooted fine, little fsck activity, with
> nothing in any logs that shows there was any problem whatsoever.

Did the problem go away with a reboot?

Charles
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-06 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-06 21:16 FATAL: Kernel too old Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-06 21:29 ` Charles Cazabon [this message]
2004-02-06 21:52   ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
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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