[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#403863: initscripts: Stray file /lib/init/rw/.ramfs not in package list

[Keith Edmunds]

I'm here because both 'tiger' and 'chkrootkit' are reporting potential
problems. From tiger:

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# Checking installed files against packages...
--WARN-- [lin001w] File `/lib/init/rw/.mdadm/md3-uevent' does not belong
to any package. 
--WARN-- [lin001w] File `/lib/init/rw/.mdadm/md2-uevent' does not belong
to any package. 
--WARN-- [lin001w] File `/lib/init/rw/.mdadm/md1-uevent' does not belong
to any package. 
--WARN-- [lin001w] File `/lib/init/rw/.mdadm/md0-uevent' does not belong
to any package. 
--WARN-- [lin001w] File `/lib/init/rw/.ramfs' does not belong to any
package. 
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From chkrootkit:

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Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while... 
/lib/init/rw/.mdadm
/lib/init/rw/.ramfs
/lib/init/rw/.mdadm
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I may be wrong, but it's my opinion that tiger and chkrootkit are right to
report these files and that this is not a bug in them. Reassigning this
bug to chkrootkit will not fix the the fact that tiger reports these files
as not belonging to any package. Like others, I became very suspicious
when I first found a hidden directory under /lib.