On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 10:50 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have had rkhunter installed for a long time, been working well, system
> was reporting clean...
>
> I installed a lot of system updates (gentoo linux), then the next
> morning, got a report about 6 files whose properties had changed, and I
> realized I forgot to run --propupd command, so I did - but it isn't
> working (doesn't reset the files database so that it thinks they are
> ok), I still get the same email/message about the same 6 files
> properties being changed. I've tried running it 3 times now..
>
> System checks summary
> =====================
>
> File properties checks...
> Files checked: 144
> Suspect files: 6
>
> and from the log:
>
> myhost : Mon Jun 27, 08:17:17 : ~
> # grep Warn /var/log/rkhunter.log
> [08:05:04] Info: Emailing warnings to 'root' using command '/bin/mail -s
> "[rkhunter] Warnings found for ${HOST_NAME}"'
> [08:05:30] /usr/bin/logger [ Warning ]
> [08:05:30] Warning: The file properties have changed:
> [08:05:38] /usr/bin/whereis [ Warning ]
> [08:05:38] Warning: The file properties have changed:
> [08:05:40] /sbin/fsck [ Warning ]
> [08:05:40] Warning: The file properties have changed:
> [08:05:47] /bin/dmesg [ Warning ]
> [08:05:47] Warning: The file properties have changed:
> [08:05:51] /bin/more [ Warning ]
> [08:05:51] Warning: The file properties have changed:
> [08:05:51] /bin/mount [ Warning ]
> [08:05:51] Warning: The file properties have changed:
> myhost : Mon Jun 27, 08:17:25 : ~
> #
>
> Anyone got any idea what could be causing this?
>
Hello,
What version of rkhunter are you using? Also can you show us the full
log entry for one of the files with a warning - that is, showing which
file properties have changed? Are you using a package manager?
John.
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