Thanks for that lovely piece of information. I guess the key to the
whole thing is to have a reasonably quick and easy way of installing
from scratch without having to go through all the headaches associated
with a 'clean install'.
Fortunately I keep all data backed up, so thats not a problem but having
built the machine from scratch as a humble newbie only 6 months ago
(.... I couldn't even spell Linux...) I've got stuff like nfs, ntp,
named, samba etc, etc which all just 'evolved' over time.
Wouldn't a reasonable compromise be to do the following:
verify each installed package: rpm -V -a
(Now we know each package is OK)
for each file in all directories except home, do: rpm -qif <filename>
(If it doesn't belong to any package then warn user)
The problem I have is that it will probably take me days to rebuild (and
re-remember) everything I did over the past six months in terms of
administration. Then having done that, the same thing happens
again..... (because I still don't know how they got in)
Andrew E.
( A desperate optimist who untill now, believed that all people (even
hackers) were good )
Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> You *need* to take the machine offline, and rebuild or replace it. This is
> the only safe way to deal with it (and not having it come back to bite your
> arse next rainy day).
>
> - Jeff
>
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