server uptime
Alex Hewitt
hewitt_tech at comcast.net
Thu Mar 20 14:00:08 EDT 2008
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 13:41 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2008, at 15:36, Ben Scott wrote:
>
> > You're obviously not installing all your security updates, then.
> > Both the 2.4 and 2.6 Debian kernels have had security advisories
> > posted within the past two years.
>
> Hey, it's possible that Warren's kernel is so old that he doesn't
> suffer from the vmslice() exploit. :)
>
> Seriously, though - check. If `uname -r` >= 2.6.17, vmsplice() plus
> one (e.g.) PHP bug = remote root exploit. That's bad, mmmkay?
>
> Perhaps more importantly you're not picking up ext3 bugfixes, the CQF
> elevator, etc.
>
> And somebody around here actually found an old Netware box running in
> a closet that had been drywalled over 5 years before. It was
> apparently still serving files and print jobs (they traced the
> ethernet cable).
Maybe instead of uptime it should be renamed to closettime ;^)
-Alex
>
> -Bill
>
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