Description of problem: Why is /usr/bin/chkrootkit linked to /usr/bin/consolehelper? The result is that you can't run 'chkrootkit' unless you are on the console. Furthermore, even if you are on the console, 'chkrootkit' won't run within a 'screen' (/usr/bin/screen) chkrootkit is exactly one of those types of programs that one would like to run remotely to check whether a server has been hacked. Even worse, when you run chkrootkit remotely, it just exits quietly giving the unknowing user no indication of what is going on. Now I know that you can alternatively just run /usr/lib/chkrootkit-0.47/chkrootkit, but the unsuspecting user wouldn't know that and would not understand why /usr/bin/chkrootkit is not working when not on a console. At a minimum, if not run from the console, it should return a message instructing the user to either run it from the console or to run /usr/lib/chkrootkit-0.47/chkrootkit directly.
What do you get when running "which chkrootkit"?
which chkrootkit gives: /usr/bin/chkrootkit
*** Bug 228220 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please become superuser before running chkrootkit. For the superuser there is a working chkrootkit in /usr/sbin/chkrootkit. Concerning your other troubles, look into X Forwarding.
OK. I have been using 'sudo' which still uses my regular path which prioritized /usr/bin/chkrootkit first. I hadn't realized that there was a version in /usr/sbin/chkrootkit but that should solve my problems... Thanks