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Re: [cobalt-users] chkrootkit
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] chkrootkit
- From: flash22@xxxxxxx
- Date: Fri Feb 16 14:56:20 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Michael Schumacher wrote:
> Is there a way to automate the running of chkrootkit so that it will report
> to a log and then have the results reported via logcheck?
>
> Can I just create a file in cron.hourly and enter the path to chkrootkit?
yup, however be aware that certain tests this program does are *really
hard* on the machine, like searching all 65535 possible pid's and scannine
every file on the machine, this might create performance issues...
Make sure anything run from etc/cron.xxx is writable only by root or you
will create your very own securrity hole ;)
gsh