John Horne wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 21:05 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Robert Fields wrote:
>>> Does anyone know what would cause rkhunter to actually execute the
>>> commands for all the system binaries and scripts it checks?
>>>
>>> I had never seen this behavior before but a coworker showed it to me
>>> in the rkhunter.log file on a machine she admins.
>>>
>>> For example:
>>>
>>> [05:10:06] /sbin/lsmod                                      [Warning]
>>> [05:10:06] Warning: The file properties have changed:
>>> [05:10:06]               File: /sbin/lsmod
>>> [05:10:06]               Current hash: Module
>>> ipv6
>>> nf_conntrack_ipv4
>> These entries are warning you that the properties of the executable
>> file have changed in some way, not that it ran the program.
>>
> But the output certainly looks as if the program ran. The 'lsmod'
> command starts with a header line containing 'Module', and 'ipv6' and
> 'nf_conntrack_ipv4' are certainly module names.

Hmm. You are right, and That's Puzzling.

> What I would like to see is the rkhunter log file for this, or better
> still output from a run when the '--debug' was used.
> 
> I have looked through the code but cannot see how such output could be
> produced.

Weird. That would be interesting to see, indeed.

Mike
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