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SubjectRe: FATAL: Kernel too old
Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:
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> 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?

Charles
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