Greetings all;
What is /dev/shm?
I've given up on rkhunter ever shutting up about the group and passwd files,
but fussing about this is new.
---------------------- Start Rootkit Hunter Scan ----------------------
Warning: Suspicious file types found in /dev:
/dev/shm/sem.ADBE_REL_root: data
/dev/shm/sem.ADBE_WritePrefs_root: data
/dev/shm/sem.ADBE_ReadPrefs_root: data
And indeed, these files that I nuked friday are back:
[root@coyote linux-2.6.30-rc6]# ls -l /dev/shm
total 24
-r-------- 1 root root 67108904 2009-05-16 02:37 pulse-shm-3724332759
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 16 2009-05-16 20:33 sem.ADBE_ReadPrefs_root
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 16 2009-05-16 20:33 sem.ADBE_REL_root
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 16 2009-05-16 20:33 sem.ADBE_WritePrefs_root
Anything with 'pulse' in its name has been nuked by an 'rpm -e', and I
actually have working audio now, so can someone please explain this? A 67
megabyte file in /dev for an shm device is for what purpose?
I looked at it with mc's hex viewer, and the first 10 or so megabytes are all
$00. I got tired of standing on the page down key.
--
Cheers, Gene
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
... bacteriological warfare ... hard to believe we were once foolish
enough to play around with that.
-- McCoy, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown
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