Bug#661873: please use --appendlog in weekly cron job

Hannes von Haugwitz hannes at vonhaugwitz.com
Fri Mar 2 07:25:05 UTC 2012


Package: rkhunter
Version: 1.3.8-10
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hi,

the weekly cron job does not use the --appendlog option. Hence the
rkhunter.log file is rotated twice: on the one hand by logrotate (to
rkhunter.log.1) and on the other hand by the weekly cron job (to
rkhunter.log.old).

The attached patch fixes this issue.

Best regards

Hannes

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.9 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rkhunter depends on:
ii  binutils               2.22-5
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41
ii  file                   5.10-1
ii  net-tools              1.60-24.1
ii  perl                   5.14.2-7
ii  ucf                    3.0025+nmu2

Versions of packages rkhunter recommends:
ii  curl                                       7.24.0-1
ii  elinks                                     0.12~pre5-7
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.77-1+b1
ii  iproute                                    20120105-1
ii  lsof                                       4.81.dfsg.1-1
ii  unhide.rb | unhide                         <none>
ii  wget                                       1.13.4-2

Versions of packages rkhunter suggests:
pn  bsd-mailx [mailx]         8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1
pn  libdigest-whirlpool-perl  <none>
pn  liburi-perl               1.59-1
pn  libwww-perl               6.03-1
pn  powermgmt-base            1.31
pn  tripwire                  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron.weekly/rkhunter changed [not included]
/etc/default/rkhunter changed [not included]
/etc/rkhunter.conf changed [not included]

-- debconf information excluded
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