On 15/07/02 21:02 +0530, N S Srikanth wrote: <snip> > Today I wanted to install "Joe" from RH 6.2 CD for doing some light weight > editing. I logged in as root (Graphical login). Instead of GNOME it went > into > Failsafe mode, with only a terminal. I gave mount command. It said"command > not found". The same story was there for even simple commands like ls, mv , > cp and all. echo $PATH for root. > I could not even reboot the machine by giving reboot command in terminal. > Did > ctrl + alt + del. Then I tried to login as root choosing KDE desktop. > Monitor > simply blinked and came back to login screen. Went to pure CLI using ctrl + > alt + f2 and logged in as root. And that was all I could do, that is login . > Any command issued repeated the same old story " command not found". Sounds like a compromised box. > Then I logged in as normal user,"srikanth". I could do all including > connecting to net, browsing, email etc. What has happened ? Can anybody > throw > light on this problem? See if your box has been compromised. /path/to/rpm -Va as root then grab md5sums as well for a lot of stuff, backup your data, reinstall from scratch and then patch your system.
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