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Re: Case 230295: This case has recently been updated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Thu Aug 30 23:39:13 2001
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:43:55 CDT."
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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:39:12 EDT
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
Sounds like there was more than one machine that was unhappy.
w20-575-32 really was the machine in question. Someone copied
/etc/shadow back into place so it was happier, but the kernel still
generates errors that suggest it has been modified.
It should probably just get reinstalled.
--Angie
>Case 230295 has recently been updated and stands as follows.
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>(Comment [08/30/2001 20:43:55 by larugsi])
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>Believe the system in question was W20-575-30, which I have just re-installed. Now back up and operatin
>g properly. As far as labeling the systems, the users peel the labels off,
>and I am just as lost as you are regarding what system is what.
> Thanks,
> --Lou
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>Case History
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>Email Received [08/30/2001 17:11:31 by daemon]
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>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:08:02 -0400
>To: hotline@MIT.EDU
>From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
>Cc: xiphmont@MIT.EDU
>Subject: w20-575-32 ate itself
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>It appears that the machine had some kernel modules
>added and various other things modified.
>
>It attempted to run verify as it came back up and do
>public workstation cleanup. Unfortunately things were
>so out of wack that all it succeded in doing was deleting
>its password file such that root can no longer log in.
>
>It's pretty much dead in the water at this point.
>
>--Angie
>
>P.S.: Is there a plan to label any of the machines in the
>w20 cluster? it's kind of hard to figure out which machine
>is which with a cursory glance.
>
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