rkhunter-1.1.9-1.ps.noarch.rpm available (fwd)

[greg at freephile.com (Greg Rundlett)]

David Kramer wrote:

[snip]

>Description
>
>    Rootkit scanner is scanning tool to ensure you for about 99.9%*
>    you're clean of nasty tools. This tool scans for rootkits, backdoors
>    and local exploits by running tests like:
>  
>
[snip]

Thanks.

I was feeling a bit paranoid lately about my system security (b/c for 
example gkrellm would show high CPU usage while the system was idle 
having mozilla email client open and would then drop down as soon as I 
would 'use' the system.). So, I was hoping to install such a tool but 
had not yet set out to find one.

Providence (aka DK) stepped in and voila.

Much to my relief, my system checks out.

I even added it to root's crontab

# setup the recipient of any output, rather than a system user mail account
MAILTO=invalid at freephile.com

# run the rootkit hunter at 5:30am everyday
30 5 * * * /usr/local/bin/rkhunter -c --cronjob


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