After upgrading from 1.4.0 to 1.4.2 on servers running SunOS 10.5, introduces 
awk syntax error issues, e.g.:

# rkhunter --propupd
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1
[ Rootkit Hunter version 1.4.2 ]
^C
#

This has occurred on multiple servers. To remedy this, I modified line number 
750  of /usr/local/bin/rkhunter from:

OPTVAR=`echo "${OPTVAR}" | awk -v l=\`echo ${RKHLINES}\` '/./ { if (a) { a = a 
"\n" $0 } else a = $0 }; /^$/ { a = "" }; NR == l { print a }'`

to

OPTVAR=`echo "${OPTVAR}" | /usr/xpg4/bin/awk -v l=\`echo ${RKHLINES}\` '/./ { 
if (a) { a = a "\n" $0 } else a = $0 }; /^$/ { a = "" }; NR == l { print a }'`


Regards,
Michele

Michele Hardy
Senior Product Support Specialist
ReD
www.redworldwide.com 

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