On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 17:00 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > Reading about Rootkit got me interested in chkrootkit so I d/l it > and ran it with -p which is quiet and it finished with this: > > [root@k5di ~]# chkrootkit -q > eth0: PF_PACKET(/sbin/dhclient) > The tty of the following user process(es) were not found > in /var/run/utmp ! > ! RUID PID TTY CMD > ! root 2962 tty7 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -audit 0 -auth > /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7 > [root@k5di ~]# > > I am confused by this output. Does anyone know what this is and what I > should do with it? Ignore it. When gdm fires up and takes over tty7 it doesn't put an entry in utmp. That's fairly minor. However, it's best to run chkrootkit in a non-GUI runstate (e.g. runstate 3). One way to do it is: 1. Log out of the GUI 2. Press CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a regular console 3. Log in as root 4. # telinit 3 5. # chkrootkit -q 6. # telinit 5 7. Log back into the GUI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi. - - -- Chuck Yeager - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
