On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 11:47 -0500, gavin miles wrote: > > Some other strange things have been occurring on my system and > rkhunter pointed out that i had some strange symbolic links in > the /etc/alternatives directory (and a couple elsewhere) of things i > didn't create. > I am curious as to why RKH is looking in /etc/alternatives. Do you have a copy of the log file, or just the errors it gave?
The /etc/alternatives directory is normal for some Linux distros, and will contain symbolic links. It is used to allow different packages to be installed, but which provide the same function. E.g. the MTA sendmail is usually installed by default, but I use the Exim MTA instead. The system has both installed, but which is actually used is controlled by the links in /etc/alternatives. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Rkhunter-users mailing list Rkhunter-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkhunter-users
