Re: KCORE Change

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On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:15, Brett Franck wrote:
> All,
> 
> My tripwire reported this this morning.......anyone know exactly why this would change if I haven't done a Kernel upgrade?  The only thing that I can think of that may have affected anything is I recently shut off "portmap" because I'm not using NFS.
> 
> 
> 
> Rule Name: Critical devices (/proc/kcore)
> Severity Level: 100
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Modified:
> "/proc/kcore"
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> TWUPD details show this......concerns me.
> 
> Rule Name: Critical devices (/proc/kcore)
> Severity Level: 100 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   ----------------------------------------
>   Modified Objects: 1
>   ----------------------------------------
>   
> Modified object name:  /proc/kcore
> 
>   Property:            Expected                    Observed
>   -------------        -----------                 -----------
>   Object Type          Regular File                Regular File
>   Device Number        2                           2           
>   File Device Number   0                           0
>   Mode                 -r--------                  -r--------
>   UID                  root (0)                    root (0)  
>   GID                  root (0)                    root (0)
> * Size                 268423168                   335532032
> 
> 

Hmm kcore IIRC is a representation of the system's memory since the size
changed, I have to wonder if you add some memory.  I don't have this
file I wonder what generates it?


Bret


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