<quote who="Andy Eager">
> 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.
You should be able to clean install, and go through the /etc in the backup.
That's probably your quickest way to getting it up, but more importantly
getting it back up secure.
> rpm -V -a
>
> rpm -qif <filename>
Well, I wouldn't... :)
> 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)
/etc on your backups will save you. There haven't been many cases for which
a rebuild and full copy (overwriting the newly installed stuff) of /etc
haven't worked for me. Thankfully, I haven't had a box abused in such a
fashion thus far. :)
- Jeff
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