Freeing unused kernel memory - Solved.

[Mark Farmer]

Ed Wilts wrote:
> Don't forget to check for updates to the SysVinit package too...
> 
> You may also want to download a current copy of chrootkit and see if you
> have been rooted.  http://www.chkrootkit.org/
> 
> There's a reason that you corrupted your init image and you need to know
> what it is.
> 

Thanks very much for the advice.

We have the newest version of SysVinit available for 2.1
I grabbed a copy of the latest chkrootkit & ran a check both locally and 
by nfs mounting the machines disk on a trusted box, all seems clear :-)

I suspect that the problem occured due to the error on cpu1 which hung 
the box but i've not been able to find any record of that error in 
/var/log/messages as it was printed to screen, any clues as to other 
things/places to check for such an error and/or the cause?

-- 
Mark Farmer
Linux System Administrator


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