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Re: [cobalt-users] Chkrootkit message



On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 07:32  AM, Rudolf Kliemstein wrote:
Does this mean anything? Chkrootkit on a RAQ3. All other Test were
negative

Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while...
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/.packlist
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/mod_perl/.packlist
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/MD5/.packlist
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/Quota/.packlist
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/XML/Parser/.packlist
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/Devel/Symdump/.packlist

I get these daily on our Qube. They're files created during the installation of Perl modules. Anyway, they're harmless unless you start seeing extra ones for modules you didn't install.

See <http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-
users/2002-November/081659.html>, the post where I learned this, which you get by searching the fine archives for "chkrootkit .packlist".

pjm