On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 10:30 +1100, Michael Mansour wrote:

> > "Original Poster" here. The problem results from --cronjob not 
> > asserting --nocolors, as is advertised by the man page, and as 
> > happened in the F9 version. What then happened is that /bin/mail saw 
> > some non- 7bin-ASCII characters and encoded the mail as Base64. The 
> > email reader then reported the content as something else altogether. 
> > Phew!
> > 
> > Thanks to all who chimed in.
> 
> So that means the error is with rkhunter?
> 
No.

> I raised this with bugzilla:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475916
> 
> My explanation there was to get the package maintainer to fix it in epel,
> should this stand or be fixed in rkhunter?
> 
It's a bug with the Fedora package. Rkhunter does provide a cron script
when the rpm is built, but the Fedora package overwrites this (or does
something to it). The bugzilla report should stand.



John.

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