How to set up daily email alerts for chkrootkit?

Login to your server as root and at the root prompt fire the below command:

[email protected][~]vi /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit.sh

Insert the following to the new file:

#!/bin/bash
cd /your_installpath/chkrootkit-0.42b/
./chkrootkit | mail -s “Daily chkrootkit from Servername” [email protected]

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Note
1. Replace ‘your_installpath’ with the actual path to where you unpacked Chkrootkit.

2. Change ‘Servername’ to the server which you are running.

3. Change ‘[email protected]’ to your actual email address where the script will mail you.
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Save the file.

Change the file permissions
[email protected][~]chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit.sh

Now if you like ,you can run a test report manually in SSH, to see how it looks.

[email protected][~]cd /etc/cron.daily/
[email protected][~]./chkrootkit.sh

You’ll now receive a alert with the report!

Everyday you should receive the alert.

You don’t have to run it manually.