[Rkhunter-users] perl file size changed

2007-11-27 Thread Simone, John
I have been running rkhunter version 1.3.0 for a little while now.  I've
updated it multiple times and fine tuned the config to eliminate any
false positives.  Recently I received the following warning:
 
Warning: The file properties have changed:
File: /usr/bin/perl
Current inode: 1131178Stored inode: 1131183
Current size: 15164Stored size: 12552

If it was just an inode change, I wouldn't be concerned, but I haven't
run up2date or any other upgrades/patches/changes on my RHEL server in a
while.  I'm scratching my head as to this sudden file change.  Should I
be concerned?
 
Thanks for your time,
 
John Simone
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Re: [Rkhunter-users] perl file size changed

2007-11-27 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 06:26 -0500, Simone, John wrote:
 I have been running rkhunter version 1.3.0 for a little while now.
 I've updated it multiple times and fine tuned the config to eliminate
 any false positives.  Recently I received the following warning:
  
 Warning: The file properties have changed:
 File: /usr/bin/perl
 Current inode: 1131178Stored inode: 1131183
 Current size: 15164Stored size: 12552
 
 If it was just an inode change, I wouldn't be concerned, but I haven't
 run up2date or any other upgrades/patches/changes on my RHEL server in
 a while.  I'm scratching my head as to this sudden file change.
 Should I be concerned?
  
It's probably due to prelinking. Although it's a little odd if you only
got one message. If you run 'rpm -Vf /usr/bin/perl' it should confirm if
the perl package still looks okay according to the RPM database.


John.

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