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Re: [SLE] Has someone hacked my server? Has someone gotten root on my machine?
  • From: Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 14:13:44 +0300
  • Message-id: <3EB10168.1050009@xxxxxxxxxx>
Dan Eskildsen wrote:

So I really have no idea of what is going on. Has some hacked my box and gotten root? :-( :-(

Machines with public IPs should be updated regularly, or they will get cracked, especially if they happen to provide a bigger number of public services. It's best to do the update automatically, every night.

http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/you.html#AEN1666

# without this, it does not work with SuSE 8.1
export DISPLAY=linux

# download patches
yast2 online_update .auto.get

# install downloaded patches
yast2 online_update .auto.install

# uncomment the line corresponding to your SuSE version
# 8.0
# rm -rf /var/lib/YaST/patches/*
# 8.1
# rm -rf /var/lib/YaST2/you/*

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