Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263834AbUACVvI (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:51:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263909AbUACVvI (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:51:08 -0500 Received: from mx2.midmaine.com ([66.252.32.99]:12941 "HELO mail.midmaine.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263834AbUACVvF (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:51:05 -0500 To: Guennadi Liakhovetski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Subject: Re: Three kernel Oops/panic/BUG ksymoopses (kernel BUG at buffer.c:539) X-Eric-Conspiracy: There Is No Conspiracy References: From: Erik Bourget Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:50:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Guennadi Liakhovetski's message of "Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:54:27 +0100 (CET)") Message-ID: <87ekugzopi.fsf@midmaine.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Length: 1107 Lines: 30 Guennadi Liakhovetski 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/