From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 6 18:32:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA23101 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:32:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA23086 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:32:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA02700; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:32:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:32:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jim Mock cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Jim Mock wrote: > Ok, I might be clueless and/or a complete moron, but I've got a few > questions about restoring files to the original/upgrading to a later > version. > > Here's the deal.. I'm running 2.2.5-RELEASE, and recently the box has been > hacked. I've managed to block out the attackers using ipfw and tcp > wrappers, but after reading some stuff on CERT's site, I started checking > the files on the machine in question with another machine and found some > differences.. here they are.. > > **** ls **** [file size changes] > My question is this.. a) how do i go about replacing those files with the > originals without reinstalling, and b) I've got other machines running the > same release and I was wondering if I could copy the files from the other > box and replace the ones in question. I'm not sure if that'd work or not, > so I figured I'd ask. Yeah, it'll work fine. This is what the Live Filesystem CD is for. :) And mtree. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message