This one time, at band camp, Michael Parkinson said: > > Umm, I have the same problem. > > If I kill Exim and Spamassassin no hidden processes reported. > > Under normal load sometimes get 1-7 hidden processes. Was is a state of > panic but it does appear that Exim and Spamassassin combined do create false > positives. This is a known bug in chkrootkit - there is a race condition in the code such that on a relatively busy system (or a sluggish one), there is a difference in the ouput because of time lag - first it checks ps, then it checks /proc, and if they disagree, it reports. > Can this be fixed? Hopefully. It is irksome, but not the end of the world. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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