On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:12, Brian wrote:
> On Thursday 06 March 2003 02:51 pm, et wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 March 2003 02:42 pm, Brian wrote:
> > > I just had some strange behavior on my system.
> > >
> > > I noticed that net_monitor was not working.  I went into /usr/sbin and
> > > sure enough net_monitor was now a link to a file called
> > > /usr/bin/consolehelper and there was a working version of net_monitor
> > > called net_monitor.real.
> > >
> > > I renamed net_monitor to net_monitor.bak and restored the real
> > > net_monitor and all is well.  Anyone have this problem or know why it may
> > > have occurred?
> > >
> > > Brian
> >
> > run "chkrootkit"? yet?
> 
> I did and I am clean.  That's what is so suspicious about this.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 

Not an expert on this one here... but if you run  

man console-helper 

you'll see that this is another one of those programs in front of a
program designed to run the program behind it programs... (is this
confusing enough?)  Kind of like etc/alternatives where a called program
links to a link that links back to the program in question.... I'm not
down mouthing any of this... just amazed at the ability of things to get
so complicated that points of failure go through the roof.

James




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