On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:02:27PM +0100, Tarjei Huse wrote: > Thanks to everyone who answered. I think I found the answer: > > I got three apps who has been installed --with-prefix=/usr/local/appname > > Their pidfiles will then be in /usr/local/app/var/ not? > > Thus they will not be in the mentioned places, am I correct? > > (suspecting I am not ;( ) >
No.. chkrootkit tries to look for processes in /proc not their normal pid files.. basically what it does is tries to cd to /proc/(1..65535)/ and reports any errors as hidden processes.. -- - U "Any setuid root program that does an exec() somewhere is just a less user friendly version of su." -- Olaf Kirch on bugtraq 2000-08-07 1024D/6388D686 7928 83A9 16CD 52FD F77F 11ED FC04 B683 6388 D686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]