Duane Loftus wrote:
> OK, time for dumb questions.
>
> 1. John Horne says: It hasn't installed properly, try re-installing.
> The INSTALLDIR option must exist for RKH to run.
>
> Is there any guidance on re-installing? Obviously, whatever I did to
> initally "install" wasn't very successful.
I run with FC2, and have no problems, other than it's starting
to complain about some of the software being "too old".
> - do I need to uninstall first? If so how.
I would. If you used RPM to install, then that's the way. If you
used the install.sh method, then I'd simply go to /usr/local
and use find to find all instances of "rk*", and send the output
to a file. If it looked ok, I'd rerun with -exec rm -rf {} \;
to remove the files. If it didn't look ok, then I'd edit it up
into a shell script, and only delete the files associated with
rkhunter.
> - is there a decent guide to installing (given the file structure of
> Red Hat Fedora Core 6).
I put all that "extra" stuff for root in /usr/local.
> 2. Have I been successful in eliminating HTML from this email?
Hard for me to tell. I use Thunderbird, and it sorta hides that fact.
> 3. How do I reply and keep this in the thread. Helmut Hullen points
> out that I was not, "Please keep the traffic in the mailing list - thank
> you."
That depends on how you read. What I have to do (and I forgot in the
most recent post I made, and got slapped on the wrist similarly) is
right click on the list e-mail address and "copy address", then click
on the "reply" button, then click in the "To" field and "paste" the
lists e-mail address in, then edit out the originator's address.
Kinda PITA, gotta admit.
Some mail clients have a "reply to list" button which works.
> Many thanks for all your help. I will eventually get there ... I hope!
I run it on even older software, so I don't foresee any problem. You
will likely get some "false" positives about old versions, which may
safely be ignored, IMO.
As software gets older and older, the exploits gradually get known, get
fixed, and then are no longer considered viable means of entry, so no
longer get tried. The "bad guys" move on to the new defects introduced
by the fixes. So, the security holes in the older software eventually
become "forgotten".
I've got a machine which runs only MSDOS 6.0, and it's completely
safe from exploit now. NOBODY writes stuff to try to compromise it
anymore.
Mike
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