Package: debsums Version: 2.0.37 Severity: important The new daily cron script does not work correctly in the default configuration. See why:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #!/bin/sh -e debsums=/usr/bin/debsums ignorefile=/etc/debsums-ignore [ -x $debsums ] || exit 0 $debsums -cs 2>&1 | egrep -v "`cat $ignorefile`" --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Be default /etc/debsums/ignore is empty, and an empty search pattern matches every possible output of debsums, so the last command will never print anything in this case. Besides, the exit status of the script is wrong, it will exit unsuccessfully if there are no matches. Common sense suggests to me that no matches = no modified files = success. I also think that running this script on a daily basis is not a good idea, since scanning every installed file takes a lot of time: ,---- | % time sudo /etc/cron.daily/debsums | sudo /etc/cron.daily/debsums 15,16s user 16,21s system 13% cpu 3:57,14 total `---- -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-libata Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debsums depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.23 Debian configuration management sy ii perl 5.10.0-14 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction debsums recommends no packages. debsums suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * debsums/apt-autogen: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
