[CentOS] How to check for rootkit, troians etc in backed up files?

[Steve Huff]

On Sep 4, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Charles Campbell wrote:

> rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel- 
> release
> Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release
> error: skipping http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release 
>  - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
> warning: u 0x1fe50070 ctrl 0x1fe54370 nrefs != 0  
> (download.fedora.redhat.com http)
>
> Seems I need some more hints!


the url you are using for the epel-release package is incorrect.   
CentOS-oriented documentation is here:

http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories?highlight=(epel)

-steve

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