Re: SOLVED, maybe: mail no longer vanishes, but new problems abound.



On Monday 12 December 2005 23:01, hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> My mail no longer vanished overnight.
> The big clue to the problem came when someone changed my root password.
> I presume someone had broken into my system and had been deleting
> the administrator's mail (mine) to evade discovery. At some point
> the invadoer got too bold and changed the root password.
> As soon as I noticed this, I took my machine offline and began a
> reinstall from scratch.
>
> I'm not finished yet, but email is working and I'm running with
> a 2.2 woody kernel.

If the sarge installer doesn't work, I'd attempt doing a typical debian
upgrade (Carefully). Start with the kernel :)

(Keep in mind incompatibility gotchas, for instance, 2.4 requires some
different tools as does 2.2)


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