rkhunter

[Toucan]

I get this in the rkhunter log
/usr/bin/awk [ Warning ]
/usr/bin/GET [ Warning ]
/usr/bin/gawk [ Warning ]
/usr/bin/lwp-request [ Warning ]
/usr/sbin/inetd [ Warning ]
/usr/sbin/unhide [ Warning ]
/usr/sbin/unhide-linux26 [ Warning ]

All others are OK.

Should these few worry me?

[falko]

Are these warnings new? Did you run an update recently? If you have more than one server with the same OS, do you get these warnings on the other servers as well?

On http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and http://packages.ubuntu.com/ you can search for packages (if you use Debian/Ubuntu) and also check out the contents of packages. I think they also show the MD5 sum of each file. I guess you can compare this with the MD5 sum of your own files.

[Toucan]

now I look at the other server yes they also show there - the one i was looking at initially consistently emails me about it! I'm pretty sure they were showing like that from the day I built it.

It's debian lenny. Do you have the same warnings Falko?

[nayr]

its telling you that those files have been modified since it last did a checksum.

from: http://rkhunter.cvs.sourceforge.net/...nter/files/FAQ

4.4) After performing some updates, all, or some, binaries in the
file properties checks are marked with a 'Warning'.
What can I do?

A. The first thing would be to verify that the update is the cause
of the warnings. Checking the system log files should indicate
what has been updated.

It is most likely that the stored rkhunter file property values
need to be recalculated. To do this use the RKH '--propupd'
option. However, the output of the RKH file properties check
should only be seen as an indication that the file has changed.
Updating the stored property values should be done only after
proper verification of the files using a file integrity checker
or your distributions package management tools.

Alternatively, you can use the '--pkgmgr' command-line option, or
the PKGMGR option in the configuration file, to tell RKH to obtain
its file properties information from the package manager database.
See the README file for more information about the package manager
options.

[falko]

Originally Posted by Toucan

It's debian lenny. Do you have the same warnings Falko?

I don't have a Lenny system at hand, but it's not uncommon to get warnings about awk, get, and gawk.

[Toucan]

Thanks - i'll run the updates. I'm pretty sure the warnings have always been there. It's just taken me two years to do something about it.

Ta