RE: Visited by a cracker

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> I'm a little confused.  There have been several suggestions to wipe the
> box and I'm not disagreeing, but there was no sign of any successful
> hack.

I agree, mostly. The vulnerability that the cracker was trying to exploit 
was patched before the attempt took place and (from the logs provided) the 
exploit was unsuccessful. But I would like to see a safe checksum 
(tripwire/aide) of the file system to make a final decision.
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