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.

Devdas Bhagat


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