/bin/kill

[Lord of Gore]

Steve Buehler wrote:
> At 11:04 AM 2/22/2007, you wrote:
>> On 2/22/07, Steve Buehler <steve at ibushost.com> wrote:
>>> I have a corrupt /bin/kill command and would like to replace it, but
>>> can't find the rpm that I need to reinstall.  I downloaded the latest
>>> coreutils rpm and forced and install with that, but that didn't do
>>> it.  Can somebody lead me into the right direction?  I am running 
>>> RHEL AS 4.4
>>
>> # rpm -qf /bin/kill
>> util-linux-2.12a-16.EL4.20
>
>
> Thank you and all that replied.  After forcing an install of the rpm 
> that I got from redhat, I now have 6 files that rkhunter reports as bad.
> /bin/dmesg
> /bin/kill
> /bin/login
> /bin/more
> /bin/mount
> /usr/bin/whereis
>
> Any ideas?  Is there something I did wrong or something I need to do 
> with rkhunter?  The only one reported bad before I did this was the 
> /bin/kill.  I installed the rpm by:
> rpm -ivh --force util-linux-2.12a-16.EL4.20.i386.rpm
>
> Thanks
> Steve
>
I'd worry about being rootkited or having faulty hardware. With emphasis 
on the second.
Check your RAM. I'd bet there lies the problem.