-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Chris Fearnley, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >'Amos Shapira wrote:' >>many "use tripwire" answers, and one which says that RPM has a verify >>mode which checks for files which were changed since they were > >What does the rpm verify give you? As far as I can tell it gives a >false sense of security. Nothing more. The rpm database is easily >hacked once root access is attained.
Actually, as opposed t a security measure, I would've found something like this useful as a backup-check measure. I had a nasty head-crash last week. Thankfully, I had recent backups. Unfortunately, I had upgraded a number of packages after the latest backup. /usr was hit hard but /var was pretty clean. So, I had restored some old version of files and had no real idea which ones. I figure that eventually, they will all get replaced. Still, being able to write a perl script that tells me which files didn't match the stuff in /var/lib/dpkg/info would've been handy. Darren - -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.daft.com/~torin> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Darren Stalder/2608 Second Ave, @282/Seattle, WA 98121-1212/USA/+1-800-921-4996 @ Do you have your clothes on? I probably don't. Take yours off. Feel better. @ @ Sysadmin, webweaver, postmaster for hire. C/Perl/CGI programmer and tutor. @ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBM4LON44wrq++1Ls5AQFpgwP/SyFfV8OW/k2VcLwpE4VcyJD14RL/wiQu ql4TBy9xNekdfbHV7C20C162X/M4TJ0bapLrpytTVfXjy1a4wp6aCMaQaOnVtGMc LqGZ9n3B1PMm9mxuxB7exkyVmz8mVH9JMxBUhY16XUVc6tszoslNPolOlkv0VZf6 fFEF3nK5WUA= =UejZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
