Hi John, > On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 12:16 +1100, Michael Mansour wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 16:29 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > > > With the installation of rkhunter-1.3.2-5.fc10.noarch, my Daily Run > > > > email is being sent as a VDHL document (text/x-vdhl). I can't discover > > > > where this is being generated. A pointer would be appreciated. (BTW, > > > > this is not the WARNING mail) > > > > > > > Since RKH has no 'daily run' as such itself, I can only assume that the > > > mail message is being generated via cron (the fedora package having > > > created such a job). So you could look in the /etc/cron.daily directory > > > for the job running rkhunter and see if that is doing something odd. > > > However, both rkhunter and (as far as I know) cron simply use the 'mail' > > > command and would not do anything fancy such as creating attachments, > > > let alone x-vdhl whatever that is. > > > > I also use the Fedora (epel) rkhunter version, it's just easier to manage > > but > > I also get that daily email which looks weird. > > > Looks like what? Can you send an example or an image of the message?
It looks like this: [1;33mChecking rkhunter data files...[0;39m Checking file mirrors.dat[34C[ [1;32mNo update[0;39m ] Checking file programs_bad.dat[29C[ [1;32mNo update[0;39m ] Checking file backdoorports.dat[28C[ [1;32mNo update[0;39m ] Checking file suspscan.dat[33C[ [1;32mNo update[0;39m ] Checking file i18n/cn[38C[ [1;32mNo update[0;39m ] Checking file i18n/en[38C[ [1;32mNo update[0;39m ] Checking file i18n/zh[38C[ [1;32mNo update[0;39m ] Checking file i18n/zh.utf8[33C[ [1;32mNo update[0;39m ] > > and the script Fedora use is: > > > > # cat /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter > [snipped] > > > /bin/nice -n 10 $RKHUNTER --update 2>&1 >> $TMPFILE1 > > > I would add in the '--nocolors' option there since this is run via cron. Hmm.. I'll add this and see if it fixes it. If it does, it'll need to be added to bugzilla for Fedora so they can modify their package to include it in their script. > > if [ $XITVAL != 0 ]; then > > /bin/cat $TMPFILE1 | /bin/mail -s 'rkhunter Daily Run' $MAILTO > > fi > > > Well that's were the 'mail' command is invoked. Looks fine to me. Thanks. Michael. > John. > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------- > John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to > help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Rkhunter-users mailing list > Rkhunter-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkhunter-users ------- End of Original Message ------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Rkhunter-users mailing list Rkhunter-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkhunter-users
