RH 7.1 atd suddenly fails at startup...what happened?

[Russ Heaton]

Hi.  

I checked the logs and nothing seemed out of the ordinary, BUT while I
was digging around for some info, I saw something that makes me pretty
sure my system was compromised. ( see article at
http://cns.utoronto.ca/~scan/expltool.txt )

Just to check i renamed the /dev/dsx and /dev/caca files and
rebooted...now the system hangs after the message

Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:      [OK]

Perhaps I should open another thread about this problem.

BTW, the network problems turned out to be unrelated to the atd
problem and they're fixed, but as I said the real problem is that I
can't boot anymore.

Thanks,

Russ



On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:10:41 -0500, you wrote:

>atd is the at daemon, a scheduler that allows timed execution of commands. It is not clear to me how this would bork you install. 
>
>Perhaps some more information would help. You might look at kernel log files or indeed run dmesg | less to read some of the start up messages. 
>
>Does you machine boot now?
>
>An alternate plan is to boot using a cd-based distribution, like Knoppix. You can test your network connectivity, read logs, etc.
>
>
>On 00:28 Tue 24 Feb     , Russ Heaton wrote:
>> Hi.
>> 
>> 	I have a machine running Red Hat 7.1.   The system had been
>> running happily for at least a year, and then about 2 or 3 months ago,
>> upon reboot, i get a message that atd failed... The upshot seems to be
>> that this machine doesn't seem to have any network access any more.
>> Any ideas of what happened and how to fix it?  
>> 
>> FYI. My level of knowledge is that I'm somewhere between 'newbie' and
>> 'familiar' with Linux.  
>> 
>> Thanks, Russ
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