will trillich wrote: > Never seen this before -- all daemons and all user processes killed. Zap. It > happened around 23:17 Chicago time (that's when the log-daemons quit > logging). What would cause this? > ... > will@darth:~$ uptime > 23:58:11 up 583 days, 3:03, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.08 You have not rebooted your system in 583 days meaning that you have NOT taken any of the posted Linux kernel security upgrades in that time period. You may have been hit by any of the cracks running in the wild that are known and fixed but you have not installed. After a couple of years of being vulnerable to security issues it could be anything. You should install security upgrades and reboot to activate the new kernels otherwise you are not protected. Here is a quick list of just the Linux kernel Debian Security Advisories. http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2110 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2094 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2053 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2012 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2005 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2003 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1996 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1929 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1928 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1927 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1915 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1872 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1865 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1864 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1862 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1845 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1844 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1809 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1800 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1749 Subscribe to security-announce and keep updated. Bob
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