On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 20:22 +0000, Shahed Moolji wrote:
Hi,
I am running RHEL 3.0 with update 4. For some strange reason, lately, when I ssh into the server, I get the following messages on the client, after loggin in as root.
===== Last login: Fri Dec 2 14:15:53 2005 from localhost.localdomain Stopping mdmpd: [FAILED] Stopping cups: [FAILED] Stopping crond: [FAILED] Shutting down sendmail: [FAILED] net.core.rmem_default = 8388608 net.core.wmem_default = 8388608 net.core.rmem_max = 16000000 net.core.wmem_max = 10485760 [root]# =========
Anyone know what might be going on ?
There is no reason why a login session for root should initiate shutdown of services. Perhaps your system and/or 'root' login has been compromised. Use a rescue disk and check the integrity of the installed packages as well as contents of .bash*, .login, .profile files.
Also, it is not a good practice to login as root even over a ssh link.