man chkrootkit Command

Man page for apt-get chkrootkit Command

Man Page for chkrootkit in Linux

This tutorial shows the man page for man chkrootkit in linux.

Open terminal with 'su' access and type the command as shown below:
man chkrootkit

Result of the Command Execution shown below:

chkrootkit(1)                                                    chkrootkit(1)



NAME
       chkrootkit   Determine whether the system is infected with a rootkit

SYNOPSIS
       chkrootkit [OPTION]... [TESTNAME]...

DESCRIPTION
       chkrootkit  examines  certain  elements of the target system and deter 
       mines whether they have been tampered with. Some tools which chkrootkit
       applies  while  analyzing  binaries  and  log  files  can  be  found at
       /usr/lib/chkrootkit.


OPTIONS
        h     Print a short help message and exit.

        V     Print version information and exit.

        l     Print available tests.

        d     Enter debug mode.

        x     Enter expert mode.

        e     Exclude known false positive  files/dirs,  quoted,  space  sepa 
              rated.

        q     Enter quiet mode.

        r dir Use dir as the root directory.

        p dir1:dir2:dirN
              Specify the path for the external commands used by chkrootkit.

        n     skip NFS mounted dirs


AUTHOR
       Manual  page written by Yotam Rubin  and lantz
       moore  for the Debian project. It  may  be  used  by
       others.

SEE ALSO
       strings(1)



                                10 January 2003                  chkrootkit(1)

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