Bug#791486: /usr/bin/rkhunter: 7439: [: Binary: unexpected operator

[Pedro Beja]

Hi Francois,

thanks for your reply.
yee it works if I set LANG=C :-)

maybe this should be reported to upstream then.

thanks
regards
althaser


On 4 August 2015 at 00:06, Francois Marier <francois at debian.org> wrote:

> On 2015-07-05 at 16:52:04, Pedro Beja wrote:
> > doing an update I get the following error line:
> >
> > $ sudo rkhunter --update
>
> [snip]
>
> > /usr/bin/rkhunter: 7439: [: Binary: unexpected operator
> >   Checking file i18n/tr                                        [ No
> update ]
> >   Checking file i18n/tr.utf8                                 [ No update
> ]
> > /usr/bin/rkhunter: 7439: [: Binary: unexpected operator
> >   Checking file i18n/zh                                       [ No
> update ]
> >   Checking file i18n/zh.utf8                                [ No update ]
>
> This seems to happen only on non-English locales. Try this (as root):
>
>   LANG=C rkhunter --update
>
> If I output the variables from line 7439 on a fr_CA locale, I get this:
>
>   Checking rkhunter data files...
>     Checking file mirrors.dat                                  [ No update
> ]
>     Checking file programs_bad.dat                             [ No update
> ]
>     Checking file backdoorports.dat                            [ No update
> ]
>     Checking file suspscan.dat                                 [ No update
> ]
>   PROG_VERS=2009091601; LATEST_VERS=2009091601
>     Checking file i18n/cn                                      [ No update
> ]
>   PROG_VERS=2014010301; LATEST_VERS=2014010301
>     Checking file i18n/de                                      [ No update
> ]
>   PROG_VERS=2013112401; LATEST_VERS=2013112401
>     Checking file i18n/en                                      [ No update
> ]
>   PROG_VERS=Fichier binaire /var/lib/rkhunter/db/i18n/tr correspondant;
> LATEST_VERS=2014030201
>   /usr/bin/rkhunter: 7440: [: Fichier: unexpected operator
>     Checking file i18n/tr                                      [ No update
> ]
>   PROG_VERS=2014030201; LATEST_VERS=2014030201
>     Checking file i18n/tr.utf8                                 [ No update
> ]
>   PROG_VERS=Fichier binaire /var/lib/rkhunter/db/i18n/zh correspondant;
> LATEST_VERS=2009091601
>   /usr/bin/rkhunter: 7440: [: Fichier: unexpected operator
>     Checking file i18n/zh                                      [ No update
> ]
>   PROG_VERS=2009091601; LATEST_VERS=2009091601
>     Checking file i18n/zh.utf8                                 [ No update
> ]
>
> The attached patch to the cronjob in /etc is a work-around until this is
> fixed upstream.
>
> Francois
>
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