Install CHKROOTKIT on centos

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This post explains how to install chkrootkit on linux.

Downloading and installing chkrootkit
Change to usr/local/src to download the package

#cd /usr/local/src

Download the package

#wget ftp://ftp.pangeia.com.br/pub/seg/pac/chkrootkit.tar.gz

Untar the source

#tar -zxvf chkrootkit.tar.gz

#mkdir /usr/local/chkrootkit

#mv /usr/local/src/chkrootkit*/* /usr/local/chkrootkit

#cd /usr/local/chkrootkit

#make sense

Now adding the cron entry :

#vi /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit.sh

#!/bin/sh

(

/usr/local/chkrootkit/chkrootkit

) | /bin/mail -s 'CHROOTKIT Daily Run (PutServerNameHere)' your@email.here

Securing the script
#chmod 700 /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit.sh