Sorry, this should have gone to the list.

John.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: John Horne <john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk>
> To: chris <ch...@kernow-uk.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rkhunter-users] hash function is incompatible
> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:25:24 +0100
> 
> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 11:01 +0100, chris wrote:
> > Hi,When running rkhunter we get this error:
> > All file hash checks will be skipped because:
> >              The current hash function (prelink with SHA1) or package
> > manager (Unset) is incompatible with the hash function (Disabled) or
> > package manager (Unset) used to store the values.
> > Any ideas how to fix please?
> > server info CentOS release 5.2 64 bit
> >
> Hi,
> 
> You need to run 'rkhunter --propupd' first.
> 
> The message is saying that you previously ran rkhunter with the
> '--propupd' option, but had disabled the hash function. Hence no file
> property hashes were stored. Now you are running 'rkhunter --check',
> with the hash function enabled (the default for you will be prelink with
> sha1), but it cannot compare those hashes against the stored ones - you
> would be comparing a hash against nothing, so obviously rkhunter would
> only report that every file had changed.
> 
> You must run 'rkhunter --propupd' whenever you change the hash function.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> John.
> 
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