Some overflow in kernel statistics?

C. Jasper Spaans (spaans@ds9a.cx)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:33:09 +0100 (CET)


Hello all!

I'm having some minor problems with a Linux/redhat system I administer.

It has an uptime of 309 days and it is based on an very old Redhat, 3.0.3
(Picasso), though some of the software on it has been updated for long
times.

It's running kernel 2.0.33, maybe a little ancient, but that is working
fine, as far as I can tell.

I received a mail today that several hosts in the network connected to this
system have been cracked, and when I looked at the system today, I saw some
weird things when doing a ps aux:

root 25716 0.0 2.7 920 412 ? R Jan 17 0:00 ps aux

This was the command I was running several seconds ago; the date of this
system is fine.

Does anyone have any ideas about the why of this problem?

VrGr,

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