Rootkit

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 17:39 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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.

I'm a pilot, too.  Fortunately, my Comanche has a horn that sounds when
I throttle back with the gear up.  It doesn't have a stall warning
horn though.  Go figure.

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- Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer             rstevens at internap.com -
- CDN Systems, Internap, Inc.                http://www.internap.com -
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-         We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?       -
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