Patrick,
Check with your package vendor. At least on Ubuntu 18.04, this option
continues to exist. Nothing in the Rkhunter changelog suggests it's been
removed:
$ rkhunter -V
Rootkit Hunter 1.4.6
This software was developed by the Rootkit Hunter project team.
Please review your rkhunter configuration files before using.
Please review the documentation before posting bug reports or questions.
To report bugs, provide patches or comments, please go to:
http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net
To ask questions about rkhunter, please use the rkhunter-users mailing list.
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Rootkit Hunter comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License. See the LICENSE file for details.
$ sudo rkhunter --update
[ Rootkit Hunter version 1.4.6 ]
Checking rkhunter data files...
Checking file mirrors.dat [ No update ]
Checking file programs_bad.dat [ No update ]
Checking file backdoorports.dat [ No update ]
Checking file suspscan.dat [ No update ]
Checking file i18n/cn [ No update ]
Checking file i18n/de [ No update ]
Checking file i18n/en [ No update ]
Checking file i18n/tr [ No update ]
Checking file i18n/tr.utf8 [ No update ]
Checking file i18n/zh [ No update ]
Checking file i18n/zh.utf8 [ No update ]
Checking file i18n/ja [ No update ]
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 9:29 AM Patrick Kirchner <kirchnerp...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm using "Rootkit Hunter 1.4.6" and have noticed my cronjobs no longer
> accept the "--update" switch. I also tried just running "rkhunter
> --update" in a terminal as root but it also complains that "--update" is an
> invalid option.
>
> rkhunter -V
> Rootkit Hunter 1.4.6
>
> rkhunter --update
> Invalid option specified: --update
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
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