On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 15:49, Igor Izyumin wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 August 2002 02:23 pm, Curtis H wrote:
> > First off, I apologize if this isn't a bug and I actually have a
> > problem, but since I installed latex2html-2002-2mdk, chkrootkit has come
> > up with the following:
> >
> > Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while...
> > /usr/lib/latex2html/docs/.latex2html-init
> >
> > I don't really know anything about latex so I can't debug. The file
> > doesn't look suspicious to me.
>
> It probably just searches for hidden files/directories in system directories.
> That's how rootkits typically get installed. Therefore, it thinks this file
> is suspicious because it's hidden in a system directory. The file should be
> renamed, I think.
> --
> -- Igor
In that case, the latex2html rpm should be changed since the file
actually belongs to it:
]# urpmf /usr/lib/latex2html/docs/.latex2html-init
latex2html:/usr/lib/latex2html/docs/.latex2html-init
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