On Mar 4, 2011, at 2:30 PM, dan (ddp) wrote:
> I haven't done much research into this, but my guess would be that
> this is a false positive.
> /dev/shm seems to be some strange shared memory access.
> lsof is claiming that those files are deleted (type = DEL).
> 
> My best guess would be that this is some kind of strange interaction
> between /dev/shm, the clustering stuff, and OSSEC's checks. I'd hit up
> support at redhat to see if they have any thoughts on the matter.


This happens when a file is deleted underneath an OSSEC rootkit scan.  I've 
seen it a few times and every time it happens it's the same explanation.

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