On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 17:08 +0000, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> This message appears when I run rkhunter on one of my mail servers:
> 
> "Warning: Root account SHELLNAME shell history file is a symbolic link: 
> FILENAME"
> 
> On this particular machine I do indeed have a symlink pointing to a
> (bash) history file, but it is not called 'FILENAME' and the account
> is not 'SHELLNAME':
> 
> mail4:~# >>> ls -la .bash_history lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Feb  6  2014 
> .bash_history -> /etc/histories/root/.bash_history
> mail4:~# >>>
> 
> It looks like a bug to me. 
>
Yes it is a bug, but in version 1.4.0 which you are running. This has
already been fixed in the current version (1.4.2).



John.

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Plymouth University, UK


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