Thanks for the reply John.
rkhunter --update |cat -vet
Invalid option specified: --update$
rkhunter -h still works great and lists all the options.
Cheers,
Patrick.
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 8:59 AM, John Horne <john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-05-15 at 08:26 -0500, Patrick Kirchner 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
> >
> Try 'rkhunter --update | cat -vet' to see if any 'odd' characters are
> appearing.
> Does 'rkhunter -h' work?
>
>
>
> John.
>
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