Andrew P. wrote:
I got this at startup:
Dec 11 03:32:42 satbsd /kernel: Starting ppp as "root" Dec 11 03:32:42 satbsd /kernel: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Dec 11 03:32:42 satbsd /kernel: Shared object "libintl.so.6" not found
The real question you should be asking is "why does ppp (a system
binary) depend on libintl (not a system library)?" You've probably
replaced your ppp(8) with something else, with poor consequences.
Can you tell me how to figure that out?
It's hard to give a definitive guide here.
First find out which startup script starts ppp at boot time. I can't look it up for you because I have FreeBSD 5.3 here where the startup scripts are different from 4.10. Has the script been modified. Is it still trying to run /usr/sbin/ppp or is it trying to run something else?
/etc/rc.network starts ppp with the following line: "/usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -ddial default" I am pretty sure both rc and rc.network are the original ones
Look at the output of 'ls -l /usr/sbin'. Is the timestamp of ppp close to other files in that directory (that would be the time when you built/installed the world)? If it's not, then ppp has been replaced with something else. The timestamp of /usr/sbin/ppp might give you an idea when it happened. Try to remember what you were doing around this time.
On a system which was never rebuilt since 4.10 install it's like this: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3712 May 26 01:28:37 2004 pmap_set -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9868 May 26 01:28:37 2004 pnpinfo -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11916 May 26 01:28:37 2004 portmap -r-sr-xr-- 1 root network 336204 May 26 01:28:37 2004 ppp -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10088 May 26 01:28:37 2004 pppctl -r-sr-x--- 1 root dialer 95376 May 26 01:28:37 2004 pppd -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9228 May 26 01:28:38 2004 pppstats
On a freshly rebuilt system it's this: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3744 Dec 10 13:32:36 2004 pmap_set -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9868 Dec 10 13:32:36 2004 pnpinfo -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12044 Dec 10 13:32:36 2004 portmap -r-sr-xr-- 1 root network 340876 Dec 10 13:32:36 2004 ppp -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10152 Dec 10 13:32:37 2004 pppctl -r-sr-x--- 1 root dialer 96656 Dec 10 13:32:37 2004 pppd -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9260 Dec 10 13:32:37 2004 pppstats
I don't want to cry wolf, but it might even be some kind of trojan. If you're sure it's not a trojan (some accident during portupgrade or such), the easiest way to recover would probably be to rebuild and reinstall the world. If it's a trojan, the only safe way is to wipe the entire system, reinstall and restore the data.
I'm pretty sure it could not be a trojan. I've tried to rebuild and reinstall the world and the kernel, following the current version of handbook. I know that if I reinstall FreeBSD, it'll probably solve the problem. But it's the M$ way, and the thing I love UNIX for is that I have a chance to know precisely why a system sneezes when it sneezes.
So I would be glad and grateful if you could give me an advice like "read this book on gdb, and the developer's handbook, parse these 10Mb of logs manually, rebuild 21 times with these and these make.conf's, backtrace everything you see" - and I'd do everything is possible, if only it could lead to a success.
Thanks, Andrew P. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
