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Re: chkrootkit response



On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:46:48AM -0500, Stephen wrote:
> Is this a valid response or false positive ?
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit:
> eth0: PACKET SNIFFER(/sbin/dhclient[1102])

False positive; it's because that program has your ethernet interface in
promiscuous mode. For dhclient, this is completely normal, it needs to
do this to function correctly.

Cheers,

Paul

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