Re: PC hangs when setting host name

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!


Johnson Jeba Asir wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
>             Currently i'm faceing a nw problem. Yester
> day I was testing my pc for load. When morning I came
> I was not able to login to my mc (when i type my
> username it simply return back to the login screen ie
> it dint ask for password). So I rebooted my pc It

The last time I saw this was because PAM settings for
login had been altered.


> hungs in Setting hostname message. What may be the
> problem., How do I solve the problem

The last time I saw this (a week ago Tuesday), I had
been hacked over Apache and a rootkit had been set. 

Boot to rescue mode (single user will probably not work)
and do a chroot.

Do find / -mtime +5 (or some reasonable number)
and if the result set contains standard binaries
(ls, cd, mkdir, chmod, etc.)
you are having a bad day.
You might even have a new user called cgi or something
like that.

Sorry, dude.

Andy