chkrootkit(1)

chkrootkit1

Determine whether the system is infected with a rootkit

Usage

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

Overview

chkrootkit examines certain elements of the target system and determines 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 separated.

-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

Releases

9 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1–4.0
  3. 5.0–10

-e since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -n since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Author

Manual page written by Yotam Rubin <[email protected]> and lantz moore <[email protected]> for the Debian project. It may be used by others.

From chkrootkit 0.52-3+b10 in Debian 10 (Buster). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.