On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]>wrote:
> Greetings all; > > What is /dev/shm? > > I've given up on rkhunter ever shutting up about the group and passwd > files, > but fussing about this is new. > ---------------------- Start Rootkit Hunter Scan ---------------------- > Warning: Suspicious file types found in /dev: > /dev/shm/sem.ADBE_REL_root: data > /dev/shm/sem.ADBE_WritePrefs_root: data > /dev/shm/sem.ADBE_ReadPrefs_root: data > > And indeed, these files that I nuked friday are back: > [r...@coyote linux-2.6.30-rc6]# ls -l /dev/shm > total 24 > -r-------- 1 root root 67108904 2009-05-16 02:37 pulse-shm-3724332759 > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 16 2009-05-16 20:33 sem.ADBE_ReadPrefs_root > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 16 2009-05-16 20:33 sem.ADBE_REL_root > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 16 2009-05-16 20:33 sem.ADBE_WritePrefs_root > > Anything with 'pulse' in its name has been nuked by an 'rpm -e', and I You should have not, but it is your choice. > > actually have working audio now, so can someone please explain this? A 67 > megabyte file in /dev for an shm device is for what purpose? > > I looked at it with mc's hex viewer, and the first 10 or so megabytes are > all > $00. I got tired of standing on the page down key. > > Just add these rules to /etc/rkhunter.conf, in the appropriate place: # Allow the specified files to be present in the /dev directory, # and not regarded as suspicious. One file per line (use multiple # ALLOWDEVFILE lines). # #ALLOWDEVFILE=/dev/abc #ALLOWDEVFILE=/dev/shm/pulse-shm-* # Adobe Reader (acroread) 9.x ALLOWDEVFILE=/dev/shm/sem.ADBE_ReadPrefs_[a-zA-Z]* ALLOWDEVFILE=/dev/shm/sem.ADBE_REL_[a-zA-Z]* ALLOWDEVFILE=/dev/shm/sem.ADBE_WritePrefs_[a-zA-Z]* -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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