Re: [Rkhunter-users] unresolvable symbolic links

[John H. <joh...@pl...>]

On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 15:53 -0800, Brian C. Hill wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use /usr/local as a big symbolic link tree, many of the links which
> may not actually point anywhere depending upon the host.
> 
> rhunter doesn't like that:
> 
> [04:06:25]   /usr/local/bin/top                              [ Warning
> ]
> [04:06:25] Warning: No hash value found for file '/usr/local/bin/top'
> in the rkhunter.dat file.
> 
> I tried using EXISTWHITELIST but that didn't help:
> 
> EXISTWHITELIST="/usr/local/bin/top"
> 
> Is there way to generally tell rkhunter not to obsess over
> unresolvable symbolic links or do I need to completely whitelist the
> file (which seems overkill)?
> 
I'll take a look and see what's going on.


John.

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