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
diff --git a/cron.weekly/rkhunter b/cron.weekly/rkhunter
index 6976920..e82cd5a 100755
--- a/cron.weekly/rkhunter
+++ b/cron.weekly/rkhunter
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ case "$CRON_DB_UPDATE" in
echo "To: $REPORT_EMAIL"
echo ""
$RKHUNTER --versioncheck --nocolors --appendlog
- $RKHUNTER --update --nocolors --appendlog
+ LANG=C $RKHUNTER --update --nocolors --appendlog
) | /usr/sbin/sendmail $REPORT_EMAIL
;;
*)
$RKHUNTER --versioncheck --appendlog 1>/dev/null 2>$OUTFILE
- $RKHUNTER --update --appendlog 1>/dev/null 2>>$OUTFILE
+ LANG=C $RKHUNTER --update --appendlog 1>/dev/null 2>>$OUTFILE
;;
esac
