[Chester LUG] worried - hacked?

Michael Crilly e-mail at mcrilly.co.uk
Wed May 21 15:12:51 UTC 2008


Debian/Ubuntu is a deb based system, not an RPM based system as I'm sure you
know. Try synaptic, aptitude and or apt-get (the man pages, that is)

On 5/21/08, David Holden <dh at iucr.org> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Bryn Salisbury wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > 2008/5/21 Michael Crilly <e-mail at mcrilly.co.uk>:
> > > My bad, I was looking at the log wrong. I thought a process was being
> > > executed by this 'Mark' but it was, in actual fact, crontab running the
> > > process.
> >
> > Ah, you had me worried there for a second. :)
> >
> > > Still, nothing wrong with running a chkrootkit and rkhunter every now
> and
> > > then. Don't forget to remove them after installing them so the binary's
> > > themselves don't become infected.
> >
> > I agree, no harm in running them every once in a while. Better safe than
> > sorry.
> >
> > B
> >
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> anyone know if debian/ubuntu has a similar command to "rpm -Va", i.e.
> verify
> all packages.
>
> Dave.
>
>
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