[cobalt-users] Re: Raq3 & Chkrootkit 0.36 (OT)

[Chae <chae@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Yah,

And thanks to all that have replied - I get the digest on a daily basis so 
haven't had a change to reply to each person individually.

The problem has been resolved and error was on my part but there is still 
something that confuses me...

chkrootkit 0.31 was being called from the cron.daily as zchkrootkit and the 
script consisted of:

/home/software/chkrootkit-0.31/chkrootkit

Thats all and it's worked for well over a year and syslog sent through by 
email the report generated by chkrootkit

Now when I updated to chkrootkit 0.36 I created the 
/home/software/chkrootkit-0.36 folder and yes I did run make etc. When 
chkrootkit was run it worked but with the errors mention before. Now after 
going through everything thats been posted I changed the cron.daily script 
to the following:

cd /home/software/chkrootkit-0.36
./chkrootkit

And voila it works - but going back through the archives from the newsgroup 
I noticed one of Carrie B's old posts and the instructions for installation 
are exactly the same as I did and it also states ./chkrootkit to run...

Now what I want to know is why was my old version 0.31 running perfectly 
with only /home/software/chkrootkit-0.31/chkrootkit as the cron and it ran 
the same if typing it in on the command line ??

Thanks again to everyone

Chae