Hi All ! "rpm -q --whatrequires" tells me that it is needed by "gnome-libs-devel-1.2.8-11". This is unusual in-as-much that I have never noticed them before ; that I am not doing any development work with GNOME ; and only recently have I been weighing up the pros-n-cons of CORBA vs RMI ( maybe it is because of this that I notice the ORBit-files ) ???
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > I have this on one of my machines too -- /tmp/orbit-<username> -- I ran the > rpm --what requires command below and got: > > no package requires ORBit-0.5.7-3 > > Anyone have any other ideas? Should I just uninstall the package? > > > From: Ward William E DLDN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:26:29 -0400 > > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: Is this a virus : "/tmp/orbit-<blabla>" > > > > Gordon, while you're right that it's PROBABLY > > ORBit (an Open Source CORBA implementation), > > it seems to me whenever someone asks that question > > the answer can NEVER be "No". It's always got > > to be "YES!", "Possibly" or "Probably not", since > > most root kits are going to attempt to install > > some service or device which masquerades as an > > innocuous, or even required, program. Without > > looking directly at the box, without (for > > example) tripwire information, without.... well, > > you get the point. Without all that stuff, > > we can hazard a guess, but only Arthur can tell > > for sure. > > > > In this case, though, this IS typical behavior > > of ORBit; not everyone uses CORBA based programs, > > so they don't necessarily have these files, but > > once you start using CORBA based programs, ORBit > > spits out lots of stuff like Arthur described. > > He might be able to check RPM to see what he has > > installed which required ORBit, and see if he's > > using those programs. In this case, perhaps > > he should do an > > > > rpm -q ORBit | xargs rpm -q --whatrequires > > > > to see what he might be running that is doing this? > > > > Bill Ward > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 12:13 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: Re: Is this a virus : "/tmp/orbit-<blabla>" > >> > >> > >> On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 08:08, Arthur Chan wrote: > >>> Hi All. > >>> I have these strange sub-dirs in /tmp/orb-<username> > >>> , and in these sub-dirs , hundreds of files names like this : > >>> "srwxr-xr-x orb-29348673785". > >>> In the /tmp directory itself, many hundreds of files with names > >>> similar to this : "file-fdhfgv878r" > >>> Never seen them before, propagate faster than rabbits > >>> Is this a virus ? > >> > >> No. `rpm -qi ORBit` > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
