rkhunter warning

[Marco Guazzone]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Steve Blackwell <zephod at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> This morning I checked out an rkhunter warning I got and found it was
> because of a hidden directory /etc/.java.
>
> I installed Sun's java recently so I expect it's because of that.
> I just wanted to check and see that other people who have installed
> Sun's (or rather Oracle's) java also have a /etc/.java directory.
>

Yes, I have.

In order to quiet rkhunter, you can insert the line:

ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/etc/.java

in your /etc/rkhunter.conf

Cheers,

-- Marco