some pathname options still use space separated lists
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#123 some pathname options still use space separated lists
Hi.
The config file says:
The last three examples are being configured as space-separated lists,
which is incorrect, generally, for options specifying pathnames. They
should be configured with one entry per line as in the first example.
i.e. pathname options should not be space separated lists.
However, at least:
BINDIR
IGNORE_PRELINK_DEP_ERR
EMPTY_LOGFILES
MISSING_LOGFILES
still use pathenames and space separated list, or at least are documented to allow that.
Cheers,
Chris.
Yes, because it was considered that no-one would use a pathname for those options which included a space. It may be that there are some Linux distributions, or even OSX, that might include a space, but I couldn't think of any. I suspect there would be other programs that would fail if a log file had a space in it or the command PATH.
Marking this as won't fix for now. If convinced otherwise, then this can be re-opened for fixing.
Well I simply thought changing it wouldn't hurt, and as the current way it's done doesn't fit rkhunters own documentation,... it seemed improvable from a cosmetic point of view ;-)