[Eug-lug] Tux rebooted for kernel upgrade

Ben Barrett stircrazyben at gmail.com
Thu Dec 14 20:16:01 PST 2006


This reminds me of a Matrix-like conundrum, esp. in the context of
remotely-accessible machines.
Once you're relying on the internet's complex system of tubes, you just
can't be sure what is what :(
"No really, the machine is fine, trust me...."

writing from 3 hours in the future (trust me!),

    Ben


On 12/14/06, Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yikes.  Bad hypervisor, BAD!
>
> On 12/14/06, Michael Miller <mike.mikemiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > No what is worse is when your VM gets rooted and then used to root the
> > host OS.
> >
> > -Miller
> >
> > On 12/14/06, Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > OMG, bypass the firewall...!!  Time to run a chkrootkit or similar,
> > maybe?
> > > The worst is when you get rooted and get put into your own chroot jail
> > or
> > > virtual machine :(
> > >
> > >     Ben
> > >
> > >
> > >  On 12/14/06, larry price < laprice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 12/14/06, Michael Miller <mike.mikemiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > So all you are doing is installing a deb package and then
> > rebooting?
> > > >
> > > > yes, it was a trivial update...
> > >
>
>
>
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