Re: FATAL: Kernel too old

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Charles Cazabon wrote:

> Richard B. Johnson <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

Sure. And if you can 'root' that machine, you are really
good! It isn't even visible to most of the company internally!


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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