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

[Russ Heaton]

I was afraid it might come to that.   Thank God this is not a critical
machine.  I've never been able to gracefully/cleanly upgrade a Linux
machine.  It seems that you have to have an extreme awareness of where
everything is placed when you first install an app, so that when you
upgrade you know what to save.  If it was just a matter of saving your
/etc and /home, it wouldn't be so bad, plus there are issues of what
version libc you're upgrading from/to and so on and so forth, plus
re-installing each app. one by one.  It's not that easy when you only
occasionally venture into the Linux world.   In any event, I guess
that's what I'm gonna have to do.  I'd kind of like to try Debian, but
there don't really seem to be many books on the subject, where as
there seem to be lots of them for RedHat, so I'll probably go for the
current version of RedHat.
 

Thanks to all for the assistance. :-)

Russ.


On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:12:28 -0500, you wrote:

>On Thursday 26 February 2004 11:19, Garth Meisel wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>> > So now, how do I get rid of that virus/trojan or whatever it is?
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> I'm willing to be you don't have one.
>
>Huh???  /dev/caca and /dev/dsx certainly aren't standard fare on Redhat (or 
>any other Linux) installs.
>
>You could run chkrootkit or some other trojan finders (?) from rescue media 
>(Knoppix would be perfect).  Finding all the bugs is an interesting exercise.
>
>IMO, the ultimate (and only) solution is to reinstall from scratch.  You can 
>reasonably safely keep/backup your data (/home and /var) but you should look 
>through that carefully as well. See 
>http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/win-UNIX-system_compromise.html for some tips.  
>
>To the OP; do not reinstall using Redhat 7.1.  Install using an up-to-date 
>distribution that is maintainable/upgradeable.  I am a rabid Debian advocate 
>but you're free to explore the lesser alternatives ;-)
>
>-- 
>Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>                 http://www.wehave.net/
>Georgetown, Ontario, Canada                               Debian GNU/Linux

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