Re: [Rkhunter-users] Updating grep breaks RKHunter?

[Nils B. (Lemonbit) <ni...@le...>]

Chris Pollock wrote:

> I saw this in my cronjob output folder this morning.
>
> Cron <root@cpollock> /usr/local/bin/rkhunter --cronjob -- 
> createlogfile -c
>  Date: Sun Jan 14 05:00:00 2007
>  From: Cron Daemon <cpo...@ea...>
>  To: root@cpollock.localdomain
>
> No logfile given: using default.
> /usr/local/bin/rkhunter: line 3239: syntax error near unexpected  
> token `('
> /usr/local/bin/rkhunter: line 3239:
> `                                           if [ -z "`echo $ 
> {WHITEPROC} |
> egrep \"${lproc}( |$)\"`" ]; then'
>
> What I should have seen is the log output. I updated grep yesterday  
> to version
> 2.5.1a from source. Could I have messed something up somehow?

Do you also have egrep? egrep is 'short' for 'grep -E', you could try  
if it works when you replace egrep with grep -E.

Nils Breunese.