Rootkit

[Karl Larsen]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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 at 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 at 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 at internap.com -
> - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc.                http://www.internap.com -
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> -  You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi.  -
> -                                                -- Chuck Yeager     -
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>
>   
    Hi Rick and thank you! I was a Navy pilot and we had a guy sitting 
on the edge of the deck watching us land. He had a radio that he would 
yell "wheels!!" if we forgot. I never got called.

    Yes I will try it from level 3 and see if it finds anything.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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