BOOBY TRAPS?

[John Summerfield]

On Thursday 25 November 2004 06:57, Arthur Stephens wrote:
> Doing a server new install yesterday.
> Came in this morning and there was this message on the console of my
> fedora3 box
>
> BOOBY TRAPS
> INIT: version 2.85 reloading
>
I trust you've stopped the computer? Pulling power is not too violent.

> Any idea what this is?

Like you and the others, I'm suspicious.
Boot a rescue CD.
Fully mount (readonly) your system under, say, /mnt/sysmount
find /mnt -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l BOOBY

I've done that (but from the running system) on two nahant boxes and one FC3 
and get no hits except the log (I used sudo).

I urge a CD in your case because I don't trust your system.

The INIT line probably reflects an update to /etc/inittab being effected. I 
don't think it's harmless.






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Cheers
John