rkhunter warning

Steve Blackwell zephod at cfl.rr.com
Thu Sep 16 14:19:50 UTC 2010


On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 10:25:17 -0400
Steve Blackwell <zephod at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:16:05 +0200
> Marco Guazzone <marco.guazzone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Yes, I've already done that. Thanks for the feedback. I wanted to make
> sure I wasn't ignoring something of significance.
> 
> Steve
> 

Hmmm... Well this is strange. Even though I've added
ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/etc/.java to my /etc/rkhunter.conf file, I'm still
getting warnings. Is there a way to tell what rkhunter is reading from
the conf file?

Thanks,
Steve
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