On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 22:14 +0000, Dick Gevers wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:57:57 +0000, John Horne wrote about Re: > [Rkhunter-users] A few small remarks using rkh 1.3.6: > > >I'm more confused as to why the second line has two slashes. Are you > >using the '-r' (or ROOTDIR) option at all? > > Aye, due to a discussion several versions back, where I believe the > conclusion was that this was allowed, my rkhunter.conf has a line reading > > ROOTDIR=/ > Hmm. Well the ROOTDIR code is not as good as it could be. (Personally I think it needs a rewrite (big job), and clarification of what using '-r' (ROOTDIR) actually means.) Generally using ROOTDIR=/ should make no difference since Linux/UNIX systems treat '//' in a pathname the same as '/'. In that respect RKH may well use and store files as '//...' but it should not affect the tests.
> >>From what you have said, I have no idea what is going on. > >I would say first of all delete the 'rkhunter.dat' file completely. Then > >run 'rkhunter --propupd' to let RKH recreate the file. > > Now I disabled the ROOTDIR line and '--propupd' gives a good result in > rkhunter.dat: one slash before each path. > > So apparently the conclusion of wayback is no longer valid for 1.3.6. > I would have to say so. Sorry. > Does remain that '--propupd [ file ] ' is not doing what it says it should. > Quite possibly true when ROOTDIR is used. I will check it, and modify the RKH CVS version accordingly. > So I hope this was of some help. > Yes indeed, many thanks for reporting it. John. -- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Rkhunter-users mailing list Rkhunter-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkhunter-users
