Re: rkhunter --propupd option-SOLVED

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Sun January 4 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> yet, when I try that, it says invalid option:
> >> rkhunter --propupd
>
> Was that from root or unpriv user?
as root

>
> $ which rkhunter
>
> >> Fatal: Invalid option --propupd
> >> paulandcilla:/etc# man rkhunter
> >> paulandcilla:/etc# rkhunter -c --propupd
> >> Fatal: Invalid option --propupd
> >
> > hmm,
> > #/usr/bin/rkhunter worked:)
>
> # which rkhunter

# which rkhunter
/usr/local/bin/rkhunter
paulandcilla:/etc# ls -l /usr/local/bin/rkhunter
-rwx------ 1 root staff 151427 2007-09-17 14:26 /usr/local/bin/rkhunter
paulandcilla:/etc# ls -l /usr/bin/rkhunter
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 339189 2008-08-25 13:03 /usr/bin/rkhunter
hmm...
# /usr/local/bin/rkhunter --version
Rootkit Hunter 1.2.9
paulandcilla:/etc# /usr/bin/rkhunter --version
Rootkit Hunter 1.3.2

crontab -l shows:
05 11 * * * /usr/local/bin/rkhunter -c -sk --cronjob



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