On Tuesday 07 November 2006 04:06, Josh Saddler wrote: > Agreed, this is a good point. Writing to /lib will also cause security > complications for things like AIDE and other intrusion detection systems > that look for writes to certain directories. If they see /lib changing > quite often, it might confuse 'em and the sysadmin, who will get a rash > of spurious alerts.
Hmmmm? It would only be updated when a service starts or stops or a user updates their config, which would imply a restart I suppose. The state data is generally only written to when starting up and shutting down - in the meantime it should be minimal. -- Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
