Chkrootkit question

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 14:24, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 17 April 2006 12:36, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Monday 17 April 2006 06:34, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>> These files appear in the 'Suspicious files' section:
> >>>
> >>> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/etc/settings/.qtpartedrc.lock
> >>> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/etc/settings/.qtrc.lock
> >>> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/etc/settings/.qt_plugins_3.3rc.lock
> >>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DCOP/.pac
> >>> klist /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/.packlist
> >>>
> >>> They have been there for some days, and I suspect they may have been
> >>> left behind from a crash.  Should I try to get rid of them, or just
> >>> ignore them? I wouldn't have thought they could be doing anything
> >>> harmful.
> >>
> >> I have some like that Anne, been there for years. I've ignored them.
>
> The .packlist files come from manually-installed (i.e. not from RPMs)
> perl modules. If the file *does* come from an RPM, I'd suggest
> bugzilla-ing the RPM in question as the .packlist file isn't needed and
> shouldn't be packaged.
>
Looks to me as though they came from Extras.  Is it worth bugzilla-ing, 
though, I wonder?  They do no harm, and there are more important things for 
the maintainers to consider.

Anne
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