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. > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Rkhunter-users mailing list Rkhunter-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkhunter-users