Re: www.stare.cz daily insecurity output

On 2021-01-29, Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:
> This is an output from the nightly security(8).
> This can only mean my /var/backup storage is corrupted, right?

Yes those are all bit flips. That card wants replacing and
destroying so it doesn't get accidentally used again :)

> The /var/backups/var_yp_Makefile.yp.current is apparently
> subtly corrupted at places.
>
> (I don't use YP at all. Is it still a thing?)
>
> It's an old ALIX living on an old CF card:
>
> $ dmesg | grep wd0
> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ELITE PRO CF CARD 8GB>
> wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 7279MB, 14909328 sectors
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
> root on wd0a (bf940e6c7aaf2c50.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
>
> Jan
>
>
> On Jan 29 01:45:51, root@stare.cz wrote:
>>
>> Running security(8):
>>
>> ======
>> /var/yp/Makefile.yp diffs (-OLD +NEW)
>> ======
>> --- /var/backups/var_yp_Makefile.yp.current Sun Nov 24 02:25:02 2019
>> +++ /var/yp/Makefile.yp Thu Jan 14 18:53:28 2021
>> @@ -297,16 +297,17 @@
>>
>> aliases.time: $(DIR)/mail/aliases
>> -@if [ -f $(>) ]; then \
>> - $(BP) -p $(>) $(DOMAIN)-aliases; \
>> - $ SENDMAIL) -bi -oA$(PWD)/$(DOMAIN)-aliases; \
>> - $(MAKEDBM) mU $(DOMAIN)-aliases | $(MAKEDM) - mail.aliases; \
>> + $(CP) -p $(>) $(DOMAIN)-aliases; \
>> + $(SENDMAIL) -bi -oA$(PWD)/$(DOMAIN)-aliases; \
>> + $(MAKEDBM) -U $(DOMAIN)-aliases | $(MAKEDBM) - mail.aliases; \
>> $(MKALIAS) mail.aliases mail.byaddr; \
>> $(TOUCH) $(@); \
>> - $(RM) &(DOMAIN)-aliasesdb $(DOMAIN)-almases; \
>> - $(ECHG) "updated aliases"; \ if [ ! $(NOPUSH) ]; then \
>> + $(RM) $(DOMAIN)-aliases.db $(DOMAIN)-aliases; \
>> + $(ECHO) "updated aliases"; \
>> + if [ ! $(NOPUSH) ]; then \
>> $(YPPUSH) -d $(DOMAIN) mail.aliases; \
>> $(YPPUSH) -d $(DOMAIN) mail.byaddr; \
>> - �$(ECHO) "pushed aliase�"; \
>> + $(ECHO) "pushed aliases"; \
>> else \
>> : ; \
>> fi \
>>
>>
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