diff -ruN rkhunter.orig/files/check_update.sh rkhunter/files/check_update.sh
--- rkhunter.orig/files/check_update.sh	2004-08-20 16:05:43.000000000 +0100
+++ rkhunter/files/check_update.sh	2005-04-25 17:51:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -52,15 +52,11 @@
   {
     echo -n "${FILEDESC}: "  
     UPDATEDBURL="${FIRSTMIRROR}/${VERSIONUPDATEURL}"
-    ${WGETBINARY} -q -O /tmp/rkhunter.upd ${UPDATEDBURL}
-    
-    if [ -f /tmp/rkhunter.upd ]; then
-        LATESTVERSION=`cat /tmp/rkhunter.upd`
-        rm -f /tmp/rkhunter.upd
-      else
+
+	if ! LATESTVERSION=`${WGETBINARY} -q -O - ${UPDATEDBURL}`; then
         echo "ERROR"
         echo "Fatal error: Problem while fetching file"
-	exit 1
+		exit 1
     fi
       
     CURRENTVERSION=`cat ${DBDIR}/${FILENAME} | grep '000:version' | cut -d ':' -f3`
@@ -89,12 +85,9 @@
 
 	    # Fetch file
 	    GETFILE="${FIRSTMIRROR}/${FILENAME}.gz"
-	    ${WGETBINARY} -q -O /tmp/rkhunter.upd.gz ${GETFILE}
-	    if [ $? -eq 0 ]
-	      then
-	        # Gunzip it and place it on the right location
-	        gunzip /tmp/rkhunter.upd.gz
-	        mv /tmp/rkhunter.upd ${DBDIR}/${FILENAME}
+		TMPFILE="`mktemp /tmp/rkhunter.upd.gz.XXXXXX`" || exit 1
+	    if ${WGETBINARY} -q -O - ${GETFILE} | gunzip -c > ${TMPFILE}; then
+	        mv ${TMPFILE} ${DBDIR}/${FILENAME}
 		echo "  Action: Database updated (current version: ${CURRENTVERSION}, new version ${LATESTVERSION})"
 	      else
 	        echo "Fatal error: Can't retrieve file: ${GETFILE}"
@@ -126,10 +119,6 @@
         rm -f ${MIRRORFILE}.new
     fi
 
-    if [ -f /tmp/rkhunter.upd ]; then
-      rm -f /tmp/rkhunter.upd
-    fi
-
     touch ${MIRRORFILE}.new
     echo "${MIRRORSVERSION}" > ${MIRRORFILE}.new
     for I in ${OTHERMIRRORS}; do
diff -ruN rkhunter.orig/files/rkhunter rkhunter/files/rkhunter
--- rkhunter.orig/files/rkhunter	2005-02-21 18:32:08.000000000 +0000
+++ rkhunter/files/rkhunter	2005-04-25 17:47:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -4421,16 +4421,16 @@
                 VERSION=`${I}/php -v | head -n 1 | awk '{ print $2 }'`
                 ;;
           procmail)
-                VERSION=`${I}/procmail -v 2> /tmp/procmail.txt && cat /tmp/procmail.txt | grep 'procmail v' | awk '{ print $2 }' | tr -d 'v' && rm -f /tmp/procmail.txt`
+                VERSION=`${I}/procmail -v 2>&1 | grep 'procmail v' | awk '{ print $2 }' | tr -d 'v'`
                 ;;
           proftpd)
-                VERSION=`${I}/proftpd -v 2> /tmp/proftpd.txt && cat /tmp/proftpd.txt | awk '{ print $4 }' && rm -f /tmp/proftpd.txt`
+                VERSION=`${I}/proftpd -v 2>&1 | awk '{ print $4 }'`
                 ;;
           squid)
                 VERSION=`${I}/squid -v | grep 'Squid Cache' | awk '{ print $4 }'`
                 ;;
           sshd)
-                VERSION=`${I}/sshd -t -d 2> /tmp/openssh.txt && cat /tmp/openssh.txt | head -n 1 | awk '{ print $4 }' | cut -d '_' -f2 && rm -f /tmp/openssh.txt`
+                VERSION=`${I}/sshd -t -d 2>&1 | head -n 1 | awk '{ print $4 }' | cut -d '_' -f2`
 		if [ ! "`echo "${VERSION}" | grep "+"`" = "" ]; then
 		  VERSION=`echo "${VERSION}" | cut -d'+' -f1`
 		fi