re, On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:10:48PM -0500, GarUlbricht7@netscape.net wrote:
Another good command for Oliver to have run, would have been "uptime" It would have told him how long the system has been running (man uptime).
yes, that was _the_ point.
For as you had surmised early on, after installing the new Kernel last September, they (probably not Oliver but SyS Admin on that machine) forgot to "re-boot" the machine. Hence their machine was still running the old kernel.
This is also a "side-effect" of having more than one "root" for a Server: nobody feels responsable anymore for that system, and things like that happens...
Or if they had read SuSE-Security Readme: http://www.suse.de/de/security/2003_034_kernel.html Step 4: "Re-boot."
No need to RTFM for that, it is logical that a reboot is required in case of kernel fix... :) Cheers, Olivier