Linux Servers cPanel webhosting blog » Install RKHunter http://www.theperfectarts.com Basics cPanel tutorials / issue,mysql,php errors etc Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:15:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Install RKHunter http://www.theperfectarts.com/2009/07/install-rkhunter/ http://www.theperfectarts.com/2009/07/install-rkhunter/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:55:37 +0000 Gunjan http://www.theperfectarts.com/?p=45 You can install RKHunter on Linux Server by using following steps.

1 Login to your server as root

2. cd /usr/local/src

3 Download RKHunter and extract the archive

wget http://downloads.rootkit.nl/rkhunter-1.1.4.tar.gz

Some time above URL is working fine due to that you can also use following URL to download the tar file.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/files/rkhunter/1.3.4/rkhunter-1.3.4.tar.gz/download?use_mirror=autoselect

tar -xzvf rkhunter-1.1.4.tar.gz

4. Install RKHunter

cd rkhunter

./installer.sh

Or

./installer.sh –layout default –install

You can also set the cron to receive the RKHunter result.

vi /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter.sh
#!/bin/bash
(/usr/local/bin/rkhunter –update && /usr/local/bin/rkhunter -c –nocolors –skip-keypress –summary 2>&1 | mail -s “RKhunter Scan Details” username@yourdomain.com)

chmod a+x /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter.sh

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