On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 08:06 -0500, David Liebman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using rkhunter for the first time. I use debian lenny. My daily
> report from rkhunter says that /usr/bin/perl has changed on a daily
> basis for about a week. Every day the hash, the inode, and the file size
> change. Why should this be? I thought perl was a programming language.
> Why is it changing? Do I have some sort of problem?
> 
Hello,

If you are happy that the files have not been maliciously changed, then
run 'rkhunter --propupd' and then check the files.


John.

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