rkhunter found this...

Daniel B. Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Fri Mar 27 00:36:49 UTC 2009


Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:07:54 -0400
> brian wrote:
>
>   
>>> It means some script somewhere did an rm -f on /dev/null
>>> then later some other script redirected output to /dev/null
>>> thus creating it as a regular file.
>>>   
>>>       
>> It looks more like a typo, as another poster said (one L).
>>     
>
> Could be, but I had /dev/null deleted on a machine once and
> the ensuing fun was really spectacular :-).
>
> Doing "whatever > /dev/null" wasn't too bad, but when
> someone said "whatever < /dev/null" amazingly random things
> could happen.
>
>   
The point is, it is not MY scripts doing this!  I have had
this bugger for quite some time on F9 and it does not
go away!  Grr.  I just deleted it every time rkhunter
reports it.  Probably just ignore the darn thing....





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