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Bug 228219 - chklastlog points to /var/adm/lastlog
Summary: chklastlog points to /var/adm/lastlog
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: chkrootkit
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Michael Schwendt
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-02-11 20:08 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-02-11 21:38:21 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2007-02-11 20:08:14 UTC 
Description of problem:

Running '/usr/lib/chkrootkit-0.47/chklastlog' returns the error message:
    unable to open lastlog-file /var/adm/lastlog

The problem is that on Fedora Core systems, the location for lastlog is:
/var/log/lastlog.
Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2007-02-11 21:06:30 UTC 
If you run chkrootkit tools manually, give them proper parameters.
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2007-02-11 21:15:28 UTC 
What are the "proper parameters"?(In reply to comment #1)
> If you run chkrootkit tools manually, give them proper parameters.
> 

What are the "proper parameters"?

There is no man page and the README.chklastlog doesn't mention any parameters...
Comment 3 Michael Schwendt 2007-02-11 21:38:21 UTC 
chklastlog -l /var/log/lastlog -f /var/log/wtmp

Look, this is a tool used by chkrootkit that is not even in standard
path. So when you run it manually, it can be expected that you become
familiar with it first. chkrootkit runs it, too.

Please report the inaccurate README and the missing manual upstream
at http://www.chkrootkit.org and keep this bug closed. I've patched
chkrootkit for Fedora 7 to default to these two paths. But it is
more important to get such changes into upstream chkrootkit.
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