kernel.org status: hints on how to check your machine for intrusion

kernel.org status: hints on how to check your machine for intrusion

Posted Oct 4, 2011 14:24 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: kernel.org status: hints on how to check your machine for intrusion by RomLWN
Parent article: kernel.org status: hints on how to check your machine for intrusion

- with rpm --verify --all : I have a few messages like : prelink: /usr/lib/libtelepathy-farsight.so.0.1.3: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking What does it mean ?

prelink modifies binaries, so rpm --verify has to ask prelink to give it back the SHA-1-sum before such modification. prelink emits these messages when it's run on an executable or shared library which had a dependent library change underneath it since it was last prelinked. It's a sign that prelinking is ineffective for this library, and is not a sign of any sort of security problem. It's probably just that you run prelink at regular intervals out of cron, and updated some packages since the last run.

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