[CentOS] rkhunter

Fri Jan 17 22:47:55 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

John Horne wrote:
>
> On 17/01/14 21:37, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> I updated java-1.7.0-openjdk a few hours ago - it *was* listed as a
>> critical security update, and I don't want yelling from rkhunter. The
>> man page tells me I can tell it rkhunter --propupd <package name>...
but it
>> doesn't know the name above as a package. Been googling a bit, and
>> cannot find a good example of a package (other than the manpage's
coreutil).
>>
>> Anyone got an example, and/or why it doesn't know this package?
> rkhunter will only know about the package if it is monitoring any of the
> package files in its (rkhunter) file properties database. By default I
> don't think it monitors anything that the java package provides. As
> such, rkhunter shouldn't issue any warnings about it.

Ah - I was suspecting that. Thanks for confirming.

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