Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, elbbit wrote: > On 27/01/11 16:21, will trillich wrote: > > That's quite an assertion. How can I confirm it HAS been compromised, as > > opposed to thinking it's a possibility? > > There is no way to know for sure unless you dissect the code running the > machine. Depending on

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-27 Thread elbbit
On 27/01/11 16:21, will trillich wrote: > That's quite an assertion. How can I confirm it HAS been compromised, as > opposed to thinking it's a possibility? There is no way to know for sure unless you dissect the code running the machine. Depending on your paranoia quotient you will either reinsta

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-27 Thread will trillich
That's quite an assertion. How can I confirm it HAS been compromised, as opposed to thinking it's a possibility? On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, will trillich wrote: > > In kern.log there's only > > Jan 23 23:04:59 darth kernel: [640847

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, will trillich wrote: > In kern.log there's only > Jan 23 23:04:59 darth kernel: [64084756.601774] exploit[25161]: segfault at > 10c00b ip sp deadc01d error 6 > Jan 23 23:05:08 darth kernel: [64084765.528734] NET: Registered protocol > family 5 There is no mistery. Yo

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-26 Thread elbbit
On 26/01/11 20:58, Bob Proulx wrote: > will trillich wrote: >> 23:58:11 up 583 days, 3:03, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.08 > You have not rebooted your system in 583 days meaning that you have > NOT taken any of the posted Linux kernel security upgrades in that > time period. You may h

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-26 Thread Bob Proulx
will trillich wrote: > Never seen this before -- all daemons and all user processes killed. Zap. It > happened around 23:17 Chicago time (that's when the log-daemons quit > logging). What would cause this? > ... > will@darth:~$ uptime > 23:58:11 up 583 days, 3:03, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-26 Thread will trillich
Ooh, hadn't noticed that. "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that..." :) So... Nobody else has had a weird shut-down-all-user-processes-and-all-daemons event? I must be special! On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:58 PM, elbbit wrote: > On 26/01/11 01:26, will trillich wrote: > > In kern.log there'

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-26 Thread elbbit
On 26/01/11 01:26, will trillich wrote: > In kern.log there's only > Jan 23 23:04:59 darth kernel: [64084756.601774] exploit[25161]: segfault at > 10c00b ip sp deadc01d error 6 Am I the only one to see "Dead Cold" in there? That error code right THERE is

Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-25 Thread will trillich
Never seen this before -- all daemons and all user processes killed. Zap. It happened around 23:17 Sunday, Chicago time (that's when /var/log/* abruptly stopped). Any idea what might cause this? I was ssh'd in to my Debian server and... disconnected. No problem, I was using *screen* to *vim* some

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-24 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 24 January 2011 01:47:27 will trillich wrote: > Never seen this before -- all daemons and all user processes killed. Zap. > It happened around 23:17 Chicago time (that's when the log-daemons quit > logging). What would cause this? [ ... snippage ... ] > > *Anybody got a clue as to what m

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, frank thyes wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 00:47 -0600, will trillich wrote: 583 days Up since then... if the box is reachable from the internet I would'nt trust it and move on to reinstall. Is's much quicker then wasting your time analyzing this strange behaviour. What I don't understand

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-24 Thread frank thyes
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 00:47 -0600, will trillich wrote: > 583 days Up since then... if the box is reachable from the internet I would'nt trust it and move on to reinstall. Is's much quicker then wasting your time analyzing this strange behaviour. Bye Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-23 Thread will trillich
Never seen this before -- all daemons and all user processes killed. Zap. It happened around 23:17 Chicago time (that's when the log-daemons quit logging). What would cause this? I was ssh'd in to my Debian server and... disconnected. No problem, I was using screen to vim some Catalyst modules, s