Installing RKHunter on CentOS 5.x & 6.x

Steps to Installing RKHunter
#cd /usr/local/src
#wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/rkhunter/rkhunter/1.4.0/rkhunter-1.4.0.tar.gz
#tar -zxvf rkhunter-1.4.0.tar.gz
#cd rkhunter-1.4.0

#./installer.sh --layout default --install
#/usr/local/bin/rkhunter --update
#/usr/local/bin/rkhunter --propupd
#rm -Rf /usr/local/src/rkhunter*
#cd


Adding to Daily Cron

#vi /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter.sh


Add the Below text to rkhunter.sh

#!/bin/sh
(
/usr/local/bin/rkhunter --versioncheck
/usr/local/bin/rkhunter --update
/usr/local/bin/rkhunter --cronjob --report-warnings-only
) | /bin/mail -s 'rkhunter Daily Run (PutYourServerNameHere)' your@email.here


Chmod rkhunter.sh to root only

#chmod 700 /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter.sh