[Bug 1324111] Re: please remove chkrootkit from main

[Seth Arnold]

The impetus to remove chkrootkit is a (still embargoed) issue.

The output from such a tool can never be conclusive. No tool can report
"this host is free of rootkits". When an administrator is suspicious the
better suggestion is to save the system image for further inspection and
re-install from scratch and restore from backups.

Shell scripting is not the language I would pick for this kind of tool.

chkrootkit reports that upstart's /sbin/init is part of the Suckit
rootkit (bug #454566) with no one caring enough to fix it for four
years.

I suspect chkrootkit is of mostly historical interest.

Thanks

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