Re: [Rkhunter-users] Question re: os_specific check

[Tanstaafl <tan...@li...>]

On 10/11/2009 5:30 PM, John Horne wrote:
>> I found a recommendation to disable the 'os_specific' check in
>> DISABLED_TESTS in rkhunter.conf to fix this

> The config file provided by us makes no such recommendation.

Sorry, I was not clear... the recommendation I found was while googling...

Heh - and it was an email on this list, and you were the one doing the
recommending... ;)

http://www.mail-archive.com/rkh...@li.../msg01431.html

> The os_specific test runs different tests depending on the O/S you are
> using.
> 
> I assume you are using Linux, so there are two tests runs. The
> 'loaded_modules' test, checks the modules currently loaded on your
> system, but since you don't have /proc/modules you can disable this
> test. The 'avail_modules' test checks the modules on disk.
<snip>
> I would suggest disabling just the 'loaded_modules' test.

Perfect... no more warnings. Thanks for the explanation!

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