rkhunter warnings

D. D. Brierton darren at dzr-web.com
Sat Mar 18 10:14:55 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 10:05 +0000, Chris Jones wrote:

> When running rkhunter (1.2.8) on FC4 I get these warnings
> 
>    Scanning for hidden files...  [ Warning! ]
> ---------------
>  /dev/.udevdb  /usr/share/man/man1/..1.gz  /etc/.pwd.lock 
> ---------------
> Please inspect:  /dev/.udevdb (directory)  /usr/share/man/man1/..1.gz (gzip 
> compressed data, from Unix, max compression)
> 
> Should I worry about any of these ?

I'm almost certain you shouldn't. I also get the same warnings. One
thing I would like to know is how to tell rkhunter that these files are
okay, so it would stop sending me an email everyday telling me my
machine might be infected.

Best, Darren

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