Re: Am I paranoid?
On 25/02/14 11:03, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> Yes - you are paranoid. There is no conspiracy. Those files were
> installed by the operator/user/sysadmin.
> So relax. :)
>
> If you want to remove them:-
> # apt-get remove open-vm-tools open-vm-toolbox
and
# apt-get remove zerofree open-vm-dkms libdumbnet1
>
>
> On 25/02/14 03:04, ha wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> I did. It only shows that files are there:
>>>>>>> /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd
>>>>>>> /usr/bin/vmtoolsd
>
> etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd
> /usr/bin/vmtoolsd
> /usr/lib/libvmtools.a
> /usr/lib/libvmtools.so
> /usr/lib/libvmtools.so.0
> /usr/lib/libvmtools.so.0.0.0
> /usr/share/man/man3/libvmtools.3.gz
> /usr/share/open-vm-tools/messages/de/vmtoolsd.vmsg
> /usr/share/open-vm-tools/messages/ja/vmtoolsd.vmsg
> /usr/share/open-vm-tools/messages/ko/vmtoolsd.vmsg
>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> By the way, there is also /etc/vmware-tools folder
>
>
> It's difficult to tell who you're quoting as you've stripped all the
> attributions from the post.
> You'll also find you have:-
> /etc/vmware-tools/xautostart.conf
> /etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default
> /etc/vmware-tools/poweron-vm-default
> /etc/vmware-tools/resume-vm-default
> /etc/vmware-tools/scripts/vmware/network
> /etc/vmware-tools/statechange.subr
> /etc/vmware-tools/suspend-vm-default
> /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf
> /etc/vmware-tools/vm-support
Unless, most likely, you've since removed the packages (and open-vm-dkms
and zerofree)
There's an easy test:-
$ dpkg --get-selections | grep 'zerofree\|open-vm'
>
<snipped>
>>>>
>>>> dpkg --search ${filename}
>
> Will search for the installed *package* name
Woops! No it won't. Apologies to whoever suggested that (I didn't strip
the attributions.) --search is the long-hand for -S.
It *will* search for a file installed as part of a package and the
following should happen if openvm-tools and openvm-toolbox have been
installed and removed at some point (but not purged):-
$ dpkg -S vmtoolsd
open-vm-tools: /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd
Kind regards
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