On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 13:51 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > On 12/13/2008 04:00:46 PM, John Horne wrote: > > 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. > > > FWIW, according to the man page, --cronjob implies --nocolors, and > that appears not to be the case in the F10 version. That's the problem > I had. OTOH, --update does not, and the man page recommends that -- > nocolors be used, and the cron script did not do that. > > My conclusion is that there's a bug in rkhunter and in the cron script. > I disagree.
To test, comment out the call to RKH with the '--update' option in your cronjob and see if you still get output with the colour character sequences. (As far as I remember the cronjob should then just call RKH with the --cronjob option and perhaps some others.) John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk 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
