rkhunter warning

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:29:07 -0400
Steve Blackwell <zephod at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> /etc/.java is definitely a directory
> $ ls -ld /etc/.java
> drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 2010-08-27 21:01 /etc/.java
> 
> I don't have a /etc/rkhunter.conf/local file
> $ ls -al /etc/rkhunter*
> -rw-r-----. 1 root root 31048 2010-09-03 09:54 /etc/rkhunter.conf
> -rw-r-----. 1 root root 31030 2010-06-26
> 20:48 /etc/rkhunter.conf.rpmnew

Right. it does not exist by default, but if you put stuff in there it
will favor it over the main config file and you will not have to
have .rpmsave or .rpmnew on upgrade. 

> I ran:
> # rkhunter --check --debug
> and I have a file in /tmp
> 
> Doh!!! Never mind. I have fat fingers. I typed:
> 
> ALLOWHIDDEBDIR=/etc/.java
> instead of 
> ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/etc/.java
> in my conf file.
> 
> Apologies for the noise.

No worries. ;) 

Happens to us all. 

kevin
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