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sykesm

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ntop - OS shows as - Linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r5

just set up and ran ntop on my rtorrent server and got quite a shock. NTOP thinks I'm running "[Linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r5". not Arch even though I installed arch myself, have I been hacked ?:mad::rolleyes:

Last edited by sykesm (2008-06-28 15:32:58)

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Re: ntop - OS shows as - Linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r5

You should post in phrakture's topic .

Seriously, what do cat /proc/cpuinfo report on the box? And uname and stuff?

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koch

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Re: ntop - OS shows as - Linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r5

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=12192

but better gentoo than suse...

sykesm

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Re: ntop - OS shows as - Linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r5

@b I wasn't quite serious about being hacked, just thought it was some humerous miss-reporting by ntop. Perhaps it sees all Leenux's as Gentoo. I'm sure Phrakture's forgotten all about  it.. will never happen again...

I suppose it doesn't hurt to be careful though.
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now I'm beginning to worry.
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paranoia setting in.

not sure why, but here is cpuinfo, and uname,  and now I'll need to start reading all the security threads, oh boy..

uname = Linux

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[sykesm@kung ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 647.211
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse up
bogomips        : 1295.41
clflush size    : 32

Last edited by sykesm (2008-06-29 07:37:29)

sniffles

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Re: ntop - OS shows as - Linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r5

Why exactly did you post the output of "uname" and "cat /proc/cpuinfo" ?

sykesm

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Re: ntop - OS shows as - Linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r5

not a clue. @B asked what they output, sooo. I suppose uname showed "Linux" while rtop reports "gentoo", no idea where rtop is getting it's info from. I thought it mildley amusing at the time.

sniffles

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Re: ntop - OS shows as - Linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r5

Well perhaps he didn't mean simple `uname` (which simply says you're running Linux.. *G* .. *great*) but rather the command with some arguments (i.e. "-a" or whatever). I have a question: how do you know ntop "thinks your system is running Linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r5" ? Could you paste some relevant lines / share a screenshot ?

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Re: ntop - OS shows as - Linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r5

uname -a indeed, but the cpuinfo thing was just instinct, although it doesn't have anything to do with your problem.

This is what uname -a reports over here:

[stijn@hermes ~]$ uname -a
Linux hermes 2.6.26-rc8-vaio #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 25 15:27:14 CEST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU U7600 @ 1.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

If you got Arch, you should have something like 2.6.25-ARCH as kernel.

And btw: does Gentoo still *support* 2.4.x ? I'd think not?

Last edited by B (2008-06-29 14:44:20)

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