Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:29:43 -0600 | | From | Charles Cazabon <> | | Subject | Re: FATAL: Kernel too old |
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Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> 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?
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