[PLUG] rpm problem

[AthlonRob]

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 10:38, Keith Nasman wrote:
> I've got a stock RH8.0 box set up and it seems that the rpm binary(ies) is
> whacked. No matter what command I enter the process just sleeps until
> killed, this includes the rpm cronjob entry that happens daily.

Check the binary size against what should be there.

Maybe run md5sum on it and compare it to somebody else on the list.  Oh,
wait, I (unfortunately) inhereted a RH 8.0 box... here's my output:

[root at gate2hell root]# rpm --version
RPM version 4.1
[root at gate2hell root]# md5sum `which rpm`
912add6d3d415c5d6c0fc5115f830b71  /bin/rpm
[root at gate2hell root]# ls -l `which rpm`
-rwxr-xr-x    1 rpm      rpm       2083816 Sep  4  2002 /bin/rpm

Yep.  I'm running as root.  Bad Rob. Bad, bad, bad Rob.....

If they don't match up, you might want to take a gander at chkrootkit.

Although, I guess I don't really know if that box has been rooted or
not.  Oh well.  :-)

Rob