On 13 May 2026 at 1:35, John Horne wrote:

Subject:                Re: rkhunter?
From:                   John Horne <[email protected]>
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Date sent:              Wed, 13 May 2026 01:35:15 +0100
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> On Wed, 2026-05-13 at 10:00 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > On 13 May 2026 at 0:20, John Horne wrote:
> > 
> > Subject:            Re: rkhunter?
> > From:               John Horne <[email protected]>
> > To:                 Community support for Fedora users 
> > <[email protected]>
> > Date sent:          Wed, 13 May 2026 00:20:21 +0100
> > Send reply to:      Community support for Fedora users 
> > <[email protected]>
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2026-05-13 at 08:17 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On 12 May 2026 at 22:47, John Horne wrote:
> > > > Subject:         Re: rkhunter?
> > > > From:            John Horne <[email protected]>
> > > > To:              Community support for Fedora users
> > > > <[email protected]>
> > > > Date sent:       Tue, 12 May 2026 22:47:43 +0100
> > > > Send reply to:   Community support for Fedora users
> > > > <[email protected]>
> > > > > On Tue, 2026-05-12 at 06:33 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:
> > > > > > Am 12.05.26 um 05:03 schrieb Robert Moskowitz via users:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Warning: The command '/usr/bin/egrep' has been replaced by a
> > > > > > > script:
> > > > > > > +/usr/bin/egrep: a /usr/bin/sh script, ASCII text executable
> > > > > > This has been done to reduce the amount of work, as commands like
> > > > > > fgrep 
> > > > > > or egrep are just "short" for grep -E grep -F.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > You could use rkhunter version 1.4.7 on Sourceforge. It dates from
> > > > > 2022,
> > > > > and includes fixes for egrep/grep/awk/sed commands.
> > > > > 
> > > > > When the project changed hands this is the version that should have
> > > > > been
> > > > > made available (probably as version 1.4.8), not the basic version 
> > > > > 1.4.6
> > > > > found on sourceforge.
> > > > 
> > > > I can find no 1.4.7 or 1.4.8? Only the 1.46.
> > > > Downloaded it and compared rkhunger file it has to the one fedora 43
> > > > installs.
> > > > 
> > > There is no 1.4.8 version, I merely suggested that any release of the
> > > sourceforge development version (1.4.7) by the developer(s) may have 
> > > wanted
> > > to
> > > release it as 1.4.8.
> > > 
> > > 1.4.7 can be found at:
> > > https://sourceforge.net/p/rkhunter/rkh_code/ci/develop/tree/files/
> > > 
> > > There is a link in the page to get a git clone of the code or to download 
> > > a
> > > snapshot.
> > 
> >  Note listed as a file to download, but moved to git.
> > did the git clone and found this information. Latest being 
> > 2018-02-24, Mentions 1.4.6??
> > 
> Sorry about that. Use the snapshot link instead.

Comparing rkhumber files.
ls -l 
/tmp/rk/rkhunter-rkh_code-866f69cbf5dba7ec6b6c3948fb3c94cb0b
3dd56a/files/rkhunter  /tmp/rkhunter-1.4.6/files/rkhunter | cut 
-b35-200

575851 Feb 25  2018 /tmp/rkhunter-1.4.6/files/rkhunter
632478 Oct 25  2022 
/tmp/rk/rkhunter-rkh_code-866f69cbf5dba7ec6b6c3948fb3c94cb0b
3dd56a/files/rkhunter

diff 
/tmp/rk/rkhunter-rkh_code-866f69cbf5dba7ec6b6c3948fb3c94cb0b3dd56a/files/rkhunter
  /tmp/rkhunter-1.4.6/files/rkhunter | wc -l 
5687
diff -w 
/tmp/rk/rkhunter-rkh_code-866f69cbf5dba7ec6b6c3948fb3c94cb0b3dd56a/files/rkhunter
  /tmp/rkhunter-1.4.6/files/rkhunter | wc -l 
5072

ls -l /usr/bin/rkhunter 
575766 Jan  3 10:00 /usr/bin/rkhunter


Comparing the Fedora version to 1.4.6
diff -w /usr/bin/rkhunter  /tmp/rkhunter-1.4.6/files/rkhunter | wc -l 
71

So, the extra 5000 lines of code differences is significant.
Plus 56K of code s

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