On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 13:27 +0000, Bendtsen, Jon wrote: > On 2011-11-11 12.22, John Horne wrote: > > > It is proposed that at the next release of rkhunter the '-r' > > command-line option and the ROOTDIR config file option will be > > deprecated. > > > > The code for these options has not really been maintained for quite some > > time (past few years), and as such probably does not do what is > > expected. The current code will be removed, and at some future time new > > code written to provide similar options (once we have defined what the > > options are and are not expected to do). > > > > If anyone is using either of these options in earnest, then please let > > me know within the next few days. > > oh no :-( > Hello,
The code never really worked that well. It was partially maintained since we took over RKH, but it was obvious that the code did not do what it should. As far as I could tell the code would never have really worked unless you used two identical systems. This was not really much use since it would be better to cater for systems of different release versions (e.g. CentOS 5 and CentOS 6), or of completely different systems (e.g. CentOS 6 and Solaris 10). Even the same systems would cause warnings because of things like different versions of individual packages (and hence file differences). Some things like the checks of SSH settings, and perhaps hidden files may well have worked (although even then differences between systems would cause a warning). To rewrite the new code would take quite some time, and involve many new options to the config file just to support this. I currently don't have that time, and don't see it happening in the near future either. Sorry. John. -- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Rkhunter-users mailing list Rkhunter-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkhunter-users
