[svlug] Need help with diagnosing compromised Linux system

[Walt Reed]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:36:14PM -0700, David Masten said:
> Going forward, do not reinstall RH 7.2 it is rather old. Install a
> distro that has automatic updating features. Most folk around here like
> Debian (apt is truly awesome!), if you prefer Red Hat's style then get
> Fedora Core 3 (yum is good, and it is what I'm using for many things),
> or you can go with Red Hat Enterprise Linux workstation 4 (costs money
> though, and I am not impressed with up2date).

Or a RHEL clone such as Centos, uses YUM, and is free. There are even
instructions for using YUM to update old RH installations (although I
would NOT do that in this case due to the fact the the machine was
compromized.)