Hello Lorenzo and Maxim, It also works fine with me.
Maxim, could you please try 0.52 release and see if it works fine? Greetings, Marcos > On 02/18/2018 03:10 PM, Lorenzo "Palinuro" Faletra wrote: >> On 02/17/2018 02:35 AM, Maxim Biro wrote: >> Package: chkrootkit >> Version: 0.50-4+b2 >> Severity: important >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> I have installed both fail2ban and chkrootkit on Debian Stretch. It is not >> the >> system I'm writing this report from. When running chkrootkit, it complains >> about hidden files from fail2ban: >> >> >> The issue seems to be that chkrootkit doesn't parse its arguments correctly >> or >> it has a limit on how long the -e argument can be. In fact, if you remove >> several file paths from either the beginning or the end of the -e argument, >> chkrootkit works as intended and lists just the removed file paths as false >> positives. Ideally users should be able to specify any number of file paths >> to >> be excluded. > Sorry, in my previous message i have misunderstood the real problem (i > was on my mobile phone). > > I did a test on my computer (debian buster testing) and i was able to > put a string of 20722 characters in the exclusion list (-e) and have all > the files blacklisted properly. > > Don't forget that stretch includes chkrootkit 0.50, while buster > provides the 0.52 version which worked properly for me. > > Try the 0.52 version from buster and let me know if it works for you. > >
