Wording of /etc/default/rkhunter

[Hungerburg]

The defaults file states that "true" is the default of "CRON_DAILY_RUN". I read that as, if I leave the setting alone, ie the empty string, it will evaluate to "true". Instead it evaluates to "false", both when called from the command line "/etc/cron.daily/rkhunter" and when called from (ana)cron. Only when explicitly set to "true" in the defaults file, the cron job will run.

I propose to change the wording of the comments in "/etc/default/rkhunter" to state the need to set "CRON_DAILY_RUN" to "true" to have it run from cron.

[Thomas Leavitt (u-tho4as-f)]

I had this same issue. I installed it, looked at the content of this file, and assumed that "default" meant "default". I was only able to fix the situation after changing "CRON_DAILY_RUN" to "true" as described, and I also set "CRON_DB_UPDATE" to "true". This is a bug, as no rational person with any experience would read this as requiring "true" to be added for the cron job to run. There's a discussion about this here as well. Wasted more time than makes me happy before I figured this out.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/382992/rkhunter-sends-no-email

[François Marier (fmarier)]

This is fixed in the package I just pushed to Debian unstable (1.4.2-1).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rkhunter - 1.4.2-1

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rkhunter (1.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

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  * Fix default values of cron vars in /etc/default/rkhunter (LP: #1011151)
  * Remove trailing whitespace in /etc/default/rkhunter (closes: #771620)

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 -- Francois Marier <email address hidden> Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:44:41 +1200