Tiger is an excellent local Linux (*nix) system security audit tool.
sudo apt-get install tiger
Then run:
sudo tiger
Tiger checks various things such as all user accounts on the machine, problematic cron and service entries, complete system file permission check, rootkits, backdoors, (Debian/Ubuntu example: complete md5sum of installed files against Debian Security Advisories), listening services audit, and more!
The log file will be written to /var/log/tiger/security.report[hostname].[date-time].
Potential problems will be marked with FAIL in all captial letters, followed by a FAIL code.
Issue the command tigexp code for more details:
tigexp netw020f
This means there is no /etc/ftpusers file, for example which is ok. :)
Sweet!
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This is only for debian/ubuntu if you are going to say its for linux in a generic sense then you should put instructions on how to compile from source, how to install it via the package managers of various distros or both.