On 02/25/2013 04:24 PM, Gelen James wrote: > 'rpm -V' can be misleading, if taking into account of prelink on > Redhat/Centos Boxes which is running through cron by default. I've shown the > steps on reverse the effect of prelink at the comments sections at link > https://isc.sans.edu/diary/SSHD+rootkit+in+the+wild/15229?storyid=15229. I'm > afraid that 'rpm -V' only will make big noises or false alarms. > > But in general, maybe it is a good time to turn off prelink, or more > aggressively, remove prelink packages from Centos 5/6? the prelink is said to > bring some performance boost, but who really cares in the era of tens of > CPUs? nowadays and later on we are -- and will -- more concerned on security > threats instead of 3~5 percents CPU/performance gain, right?
RHEL does prelinking by default, we therefore will never turn it off in CentOS by default.
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