On 17/06/2025 12:45 am, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jun 2025, 20:49 Stephan Helma, <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
From the packages mentioned, the following are marked essential
(checked with `aptitude search '?priority(required)'`):
awk, coreutils, findutils, grep, login, sed
The remaining packages packages are:
binutils, iproute2, net-tools, procps
Should chkrootkit depend on those four packages?
Thanks for this. The answer here is: almost, but not quite. Neither
iproute2 nor net-tools are actually needed --- iproute should be
installed, but both can be removed without the breakage you found.
iproute is not part of the essential packages and hence not installed on
my system.
what would really help is to test with whatever you used to find the
first bug.
I am not certain, what you mean with this.
I now installed binutils. Let's see, what chkrootkit will do ...
(if you do want to analyse the code you need to apply the debian patches
first - you seem to be quoting from the unpatched upstream code - as
xargs should be in cmdlist?)
I used the script /usr/sbin/chkrootkit on my Debian system 12.11, not
the original code.
