Re: Linux just shutdown at exactly 1:30pm for no reason... please help!
From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 09/30/05
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:11:12 -0400
On 29 Sep 2005 20:00:54 -0700, Gumby
<gumby55555@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure if I got hacked or what happened... but there wasn't a
> power outage (I have a UPS and the other machines were fine) but, for
> some inexplicable reason, my Linux machine shutdown today at 13:30. I
> have NO idea why... I checked all the logs in
> /var/log/{secure,messages,boot,dmesg,cron} and they show nothing; only
> the cron log allowed me to figure out the machine must've gone down at
> 1:30pm. I have a Linux kernel (kernel: 2.4.20 #6 Tue Dec 17 18:11:53
> PST 2002 alpha unknown) for the Alpha processor.
>
> Is there a vulnerability/virus I missed? Or did I get hacked and logs
> mangled?
>
Have you tried chkrootkit or rkhunter?
With a kernel from 2002, you may have missed a lot of vulnerabilities.
Last I heard, the 2.4 kernel was up to version 2.4.31 or so.
-- You have an ambitious nature and may make a name for yourself.
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