I see the same issue on some servers, one possible solution is to ignore
zero length files, as the .ramfs file is empty on my system it seems.
My version of the patch is attached.
Stu
--
>From the prompt of Stu Teasdale
... though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage
from beginning to end.
-- Vernor Vinge, "The Peace War"
diff -u chkrootkit-0.47/chkrootkit chkrootkit-0.47-new/chkrootkit
--- chkrootkit-0.47/chkrootkit 2007-08-17 15:42:02.000000000 +0100
+++ chkrootkit-0.47-new/chkrootkit 2007-08-17 15:41:13.000000000
+0100
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@
if [ "${QUIET}" != "t" ]; then printn \
"Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while...
"; fi
- files=`${find} ${DIR} -name ".[A-Za-z]*" -o -name "...*" -o -name
".. *"`
+ files=`${find} ${DIR} \( -name ".[A-Za-z]*" -o -name "...*" -o -name
".. *" \) -and -not -empty`
dirs=`${find} ${DIR} -type d -name ".*"`
if [ "${files}" = "" -a "${dirs}" = "" ]
then
