If you installed rkhunter as a package (e.g. as an RPM file or via 'yum'), then it is possible that the packager included a cron job which will run 'rkhunter --update' for you every so often.
John. On 13/01/14 13:32, Sam Ashley wrote: > Hi John, > > Thanks for your note. I'm afraid I didn't phrase my original question > very well; sorry for that. What had me confused was that I had not > recently done any software updates!, and so had not done > > /usr/bin/rkhunter --update > > but I don't think I made that at all clear in my email, sorry. (I did > read the man page, but since I (believed I) hadn't initiated a software > update I was confused; now I'm doubly confused because I'm wondering if > there was a delay between an update and when I got the news... never > mind) > > I was asking to the mailing list because I was wondering if rkhunter > logs things like updates to the language files, with time stamps. > > At any rate thanks again for a very nice program!! > > Best, > Sam > > > On Sat, Jan 11, 2014, at 21:29, John Horne wrote: >> On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 15:18 +0100, Sam Ashley wrote: >>> Yesterday I got a warning that the >>> hash for this was showing a change: >>> >>> /var/lib/rkhunter/db/i18n/de [ Warning ] >>> >> Yes, the German language file was recently changed. >> >>> /usr/bin/rkhunter --update >>> >> This doesn't do a software update, it updates the rkhunter data files, >> including the language files! That is why your German file was updated. >> Suggest you read the rkhunter man page to see how it works. >> >> >> >> John. >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 >> Plymouth University, UK Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. >> Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For >> Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. >> Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Rkhunter-users mailing list >> Rkhunter-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkhunter-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Rkhunter-users mailing list Rkhunter-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkhunter-users
