For some reason, it was not prompting me to enter su password nor was it 
launching net_monitor.  I had fears of a rootkit, despite what chkrootkit 
returned, so I did an MD5 checksum and there were inconsistencies.  I wiped 
the root partition and restored a safe backup.  All is well, although I plan 
to review my system security to avoid this in the future.

Brian

On Friday 07 March 2003 02:35 pm, diego wrote:
> Consolehelper is a program that makes you enter root/admin/... password
> before executing the program itself. There are programs that need to be
> run with more priviledges and this is like a graphical version of
> sudo...
>
> El jue, 06-03-2003 a las 20:42, Brian escribi�:
> > 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
> >
> > ----
> >
> >
> > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
> > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com


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