rkhunter fails to update about install.doctor HOT 3 OPEN

@ProfessorManhattan, past discussions about failure to download the files were related to changes at Sourceforge. Retrying has usually resulted in the download succeeding in those cases.

There was also a move to use HTTPS to download these files but that was reverted as the code change was not in place to support that. Currently, this is handled by a redirect to HTTPS URL. Could you please try the wget command without -q to get more info - something like wget -O - http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/1.4/mirrors.dat? Please also test with curl. When I tried on a AMD64 machine, wget and curl were able to download the files (and I did not have the problem to begin with). I do not have CloudFlare installed, so not really sure if that is contributing.

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Hey @enggnr --- thanks... I tried to do this but it seems to always add the -q flag. I'm seeing this issue on macOS arm64 (new macbook)

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@ProfessorManhattan, it may not have any thing to do with certificates if it is happening on a new machine. Could you please check the values of these settings in the file rkhunter.conf? Please run $(brew --prefix) to find the path where Homebrew installs software. The file should be in the Cellar/rkhunter/1.4.6/etc/ folder in that location.

• MIRRORS_MODE (default is 0)
• WEB_CMD (default is empty)

Homebrew does not appear to be changing these settings. Could you please set WEB_CMD=curl -L (or /usr/bin/curl -L) in the conf file and try the update? The URLs in mirrors.dat file need to be using http (https also works with curl and wget as mentioned in the previous comment but lets check anyway), which has helped a few people.

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