@kdfrawg A friend here in town had it. Electrical problems out the wazoo. Never liked that stuff because of what it does when it takes a heavy load. A miracle more houses didn't burn down than already did. I don;t think it's even allowed in new construction here.

@kdfrawg About five hours altogether.

@kdfrawg Our problem is electrical. We are going to replace it anyway at some point since the stove and fridge are stainless finish and the dishwasher is not. (And is old)

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Another observation: I really love XFS. It screams compared to EXT file systems.

Revisiting the malware on the remote server…

It managed to tie into systemd with another copy of libudev.so. Very clever.

Removal of said library, kill -STOP on the offending processes (SIGKILL would prompt a relaunching of an entirely new set of processes since they were being watchdogged), reinstallation of the kernel and systemd-devel and a reboot seems to have cleansed it. (yum reinstall \* in progress now)

Thanks for the fun, China.

Okay, now that I have a weekend project lined up, I now turn to finding a decent log scanning and firewalling daemon for the newer Linuxes that doesn't suck.

Or I move the one I wrote ages ago over to it. At least iptables is still in use so it shouldn't be too hard.

Been using Fail2Ban. Fail2Ban was running on the box that got nailed yesterday and should have caught the brute force attempts to get in but didn't for some odd reason.

Now to determine if the ground fault adapter on the same circuit that tripped is bad or if a common is loose somewhere.

I've found outlets in this house that had loose connections via barely tightened lugs.

Really need to take a weekend and check every bit of wiring

I'll watch that later as I have discovered a problem with our dishwasher.

I hate this house sometimes

Or reveal a really neat super power

Now that a email has been sent that politely informs the receiver of the importance of /etc/ssh/sshd_config, I now move onto other tasks.