Bug#823934: [rkhunter] awk: cmd. line:1: BEGIN { RS="" }; !~ /^ Error on when 2 occurrences of ALLOWPROMISCIF

[chymian@gmx.net (chymian)]

Package: rkhunter
Version: 1.4.2-5
Severity: normal

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when there are 2 occurrences of ALLOWPROMISCIF in /etc/rkhunter.conf, rkhunter throws an error.

/etc/rkhunter.conf
# 
# Allow the specified network interfaces to be in promiscuous mode. 
# 
# This is a space-separated list of interface names. The option may be 
# specified more than once. 
# 
# The default value is the null string. 
# 
ALLOWPROMISCIF=enp4s0f2 
ALLOWPROMISCIF=wlp3s0 


error from rkhunter:

# LANG=C rkhunter -c --sk --rwo --lang en 
awk: cmd. line:1: BEGIN { RS="" }; $1 !~ /^(enp4s0f2 
awk: cmd. line:1:                         ^ unterminated regexp 
awk: cmd. line:1: error: :, [., or [=: /^(enp4s0f2/ 
grep: Unmatched ( or \(



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Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64

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  400 unstable        download.jitsi.org 
  200 stable          repo.vivaldi.com 

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