-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm sure everyone has heard about this but I thought I'd send it out "just in case" you didn't. There is a nasty root exploit for kernel 2.6.17 - 2.6.24 which I highly recommend upgrading your kernel. Unfortunately not everyone has patches out (well probably now but...)... Anyway what I did on my boxes was install a kernel module that disables vmsplice (if for some reason you can't reboot your box or can't upgrade your kernel for some reason) I recommend this route. I tried a couple and this is the best one I've found: Just download from http://home.powertech.no/oystein/ptpatch2008/ the Makefile and ptpatch2008.c type make and copy the kernel module into a directory in your kernel directory type depmod -a, then modprobe ptpatch2008 and you should be golden. - -Myron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org iD8DBQFHseypifbfg5b2FvURAgGdAKCZAD3uKFeNWcmmOht7VKrMtQX9AwCg5eSV a1MQyZMSNx7hVroGXJZAkvU= =fE5L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------ The Juneau Linux Users Group -- http://www.juneau-lug.org This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header.