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Date:      Sat, 2 Feb 2008 14:34:07 +0100
From:      Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Colin Brace <cb@lim.nl>
Subject:   Re: rkhunter: "find: /dev/fd/3/* No such file or directory" error
Message-ID:  <200802021434.08715.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
In-Reply-To: <aec9371b0802020508s20fddcc3jfd08bf5b156feb55@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <aec9371b0802020508s20fddcc3jfd08bf5b156feb55@mail.gmail.com>

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On Saturday 02 February 2008 14:08:52 Colin Brace wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Lately I have been seeing a lot of errors generated when I run
> rkhunter on a daily basis by cron:
>
> find: /dev/fd/3/sendmail.st: No such file or directory
> find: /dev/fd/3/userlog: No such file or directory
> find: /dev/fd/3/lastlog: No such file or directory
> [...]
>
> I am afraid I don't know quite enough about the BSD filesystem to know
> what dev/fd/3 is.

/dev/fd/0-2 = stdin/out/err, 3 is an open file somewhere on your system. 
Logically, the first file opened by the first process after boot up, but of 
course, this isn't always the case.

Looks more like a bug in rkhunter. For some reason it thinks fd 3 is /var/log.

-- 
Mel



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