[Mimedefang] Don't know what happened

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Brad Tarver wrote:

> I set confMILTER_LOG_LEVEL to 21. The other things you suggested were
> already set. I even recompiled MD with the debugging flag. I still don't
> get any indications as to why MD won't start.

This is a long shot, but I had a CanIt customer whose setup died in exactly
the way you describe.  His kernel was taking forever to execute the "setgid"
system call.  I believe it was the result of a system compromise.

Could your kernel have been hacked?

Regards,

David.