Le 08/06/2025 à 16:17, Ricky Tigg a écrit :
February 24, 2018, the date of publication of the last version—this one. I assume that since no version has been released
since then, there wasn't a sufficient need for it. The fact that such software exists is itself a source of satisfaction. And
even more so, since it's the only one for POSIX-compliant systems. It certainly ranks among the 256 best programs of all time
for POSIX-compliant systems. I'd give it a rating of 4.00–4.25 out of five if Sourceforge supported such precision.
While there's clearly no issue here in the traditional sense, I agree with you about the documentation. Generally, any
documentation benefits from being up-to-date to ensure its reliability. Here are a few examples for illustration.
case 1 | README file
---
$ nano -l /usr/share/doc/rkhunter/README
5 Copyright (c) 2003-2017, Michael Boelen
6 See the LICENSE file for conditions of use and distribution.
10 the RKH website at http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net
---
Updating would bring a full copyright chain and accurate website URL which is served as HTTPS, not HTTP. Here shown as
updated respectively:
---
5 Copyright (c) 2003-2017, Michael Boelen
6 Copyright (c) 2017-, <name>
11 the RKH website at https://rkhunter.sourceforge.net
---
case 2 | rkhunter RPM package metadata
$ rpm -qi rkhunter | grep ^URL
URL : http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/
Same observation regarding the URL; the actual website is used over HTTPS, not HTTP. Since this is mentioned as such in the
RPM package metadata, it might be the same in the project source code.
> FWIW, that's around lines 21690 and 2250 in rkhunter file.
What resource are you referring to by "rkhunter file"?
Hi,
I think Fedora uses the last git version, which is dated October 24, 2022,
plus some patches.
In fact, there is need for a new release, but the primary (and lately the only) maintainer, John Horne, said he won't support
the project anymore (see https://sourceforge.net/p/rkhunter/support-requests/74/).
There is also no news from Unspawn, the one who maintain signatures DBs, since
November 2016.
Dan "Dogsbody" Denton then takes over the project in December 2023.
There is a migration repo here: https://github.com/Rootkit-Hunter/rkhunter and
a site here: https://www.rkhunter.dev/
The version there is genuine 1.4.6 from 2018.
But nothing happens since then. And it seems Dan is no longer responding.
If you want to you can try to contact him there: https://www.dogsbody.org/ or there: https://www.dogsbody.com/ or even on this
RKH mailing list.
Concerning the line numbers, I refer to the rkhunter script : /usr/bin/rkhunter.
Cheers.
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