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SubjectRe: Weird login, possibly related to rootkit Q
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 01:21:07AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> So we did a reinstall (rh9) without formatting because there was a lot
> of non-replaceable data on it. This also saved the logs, but they are
> obviously not a lot of help when about 5 hours is missing at about the
> time everything went to hell.

Let's get this straight: your old Linux distro got rooted, so you installed
an old Linux distro that no longer gets security updates to replace it.
Why is that kernel related? Sounds more like pebkac.

-ben
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