On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:47:25 -0800
Ed Kasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder:

> What a holiday!  Our box that runs our mail server was hacked on Dec. 23 
> and we are still trying to clean up the mess...
> 
> I know this may be a tad off topic so if you have an answer to this 
> question, you can always just email me privately.  I just thought someone 
> here might know how to solve this one last issue.
> 
> This particular server is running RH 6.  They changed /bin/ps to something 
> that is totally different than what we had on there before and created a 
> hard link so that it can't be deleted or updated until we find the hard 
> link.  My question is how do I trace this link so I can delete it, and then 
> reinstall the rpm????
> 
> Even forcing the rpm install returns the following:
> 
> # rpm -i --force /test/procps-2.0.2-2.i386.rpm
> can't rename /bin/ps to /bin/ps-RPMDELETE: Operation not permitted
> unpacking of archive failed on file /bin/ps: cpio: unlink failed - 
> Operation not permitted
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 
> Ed
> ~~

Ed,

have you tried going in at runlevel #1, umount the partition where "ps" lives and 
tried deleting it that way?

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