i believe what mike is trying to say is that there is a very good chance that your box has been rooted. up2date is a nifty tool with two problems, 1 you can have only one box active with redhat and second it is primarity an X tool, not very good for servers that are Xless or headless either use apt-get or rsync the updated folder from any redhat mirror and then rpm -Fvh the entire folder... -munir On Monday 04 March 2002 04:47 pm, Mick Hicks wrote: > Umm.. Cut power to your machine. Boot up with tomsrtbt or a bootable > business card. Use `dd' and `nc' (netcat) or ssh to copy the contents > of your hard drive partitions to another system. Reinstall your system > while it is disconnected from the network or at least behind a firewall. > Run up2date or whatever other utility you like to patch your system to > whatever is current. Copy important data from the disk images back onto > your server, and then you'll be ready to have your computer on the > network again..