Hi All,

I am getting a bit confused from the messages that I receive in my gmail 
account sent from my crontab.

First, is related to the title which is:

 Cron <root@mylaptop> test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons

I am not sure what this "test -x" part represents?


The second question is related to the output of chkrootkit, which is run by 
the cron.weekly and emails stuff that don't make much sense to me:
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$Ld$ Ll$(Lt$0HÄ8ÃAWAVAUIýATUSHH°èH›AÇHÝHL$ØMäITMt$(HÒtdfDIt$ 
Hötm½(Ht8fLïèHþÿÿITHÃHÆLïèHßèHîHÅ(It$ 
HuÊIMôIÆ(HÒu¢DÿèH1À[]A\A]A^A_ÃLæLïèþÿÿëÊLïH5H421ÒèoþÿÿDÿèëÃDS1öH°H;èHß[éCopyright 
(C) the VideoLAN VLC media player developersLicensed under the terms of the 
GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.Freebox TV listing (French ISP 
free.fr services)http/shout-
winamp://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/newxml.phtmlhttp/shout-
winamp://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/newtvlister.phtml?alltv=1http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3uhttp://www.canalplus.fr/index.php?pid=1784shoutshoutcast-
limitShoutcastShoutcast radio 
listingsservices_discoveryshoutcastShoutcastTVShoutcast TV 
listingsshoutcasttvfrenchtvFrench TVFreeboxfreeboxStarting FreeboxStarting 
FrenchTVStarting ShoutTVStarting ShoutRadiono-playlist-
autostartItemAddedShoutcast RadioShoutcast TVFreebox TVvlc://nopCanal +Les 
Guignolshttp-forward-cookieszRL«ACF0lsJG ,A¤,A¼,AÔ)AìOG0$OL@4DûBBB E(A0A8D@|
GCC: (Gentoo 4.3.4 p1.0, pie-10.1.5) 
4.3.4.symtab.strtab.shstrtab.rela.text.data.bss.rodata.str1.8.rodata.str1.1.rela.data.rel.ro.local.rela.eh_frame.comment.note.GNU-
stack @&12@2s
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Now I happened to notice that the above legible references to vlc are from the 
"services discovery" list that the vlc player shows under Media/Services.  Not 
sure what they are doing in chckrootkit ... is it telling me that it just 
scanned all such content?  When I run it manually it looks just the same and 
follows a long output following "Searching for suspect PHP files..."  I am not 
sure I understand why chkrootkit is emailing these to me and if I need to do 
something about it.
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Regards,
Mick