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Michael Weber shocked and awed us all by speaking:
> "You have 4 process hidden for ps command" and the hint for a probably
> installed "LKM Rootkit". So far, so good. "chkproc" with verbose option
> enabled (-v) say:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] chkrootkit-0.38]# ./chkproc -v
> PID 26194: not in ps output
> PID 26195: not in ps output
> PID 26196: not in ps output
> PID 26197: not in ps output
> You have 4 process hidden for ps command
>
> That's fine, now we know the PID and can ask...
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] chkrootkit-0.38]# ps p 26194
> PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
> 26194 ?        S      0:00 named -u named
>
> Seems to be the name daemon, that's okay - a little nameserver for the
> local net (and only reachable by the local IP) is running. The 3 other
> deliver the same output.Looks like a bug in "chkrootkit" but - how safe
> can i be that this is really a bug and not a clever LKM? I guess that
> a rootkit will not be named "youhavebeencracked"...

what kernel version? I've been running chkrootkit for a while now, and since 
upgrading to 2.6.0-test2, it started doing the same thing to me. I believe 
it's a bug in chkrotkit that is tickled by differences in the new kernel.
- -- 
Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
http://doug.hunley.homeip.net && http://www.linux-sxs.org

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