Re: Dilemma.

2001-04-20 Thread Paul Halliday
Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > You probably want to use the soft updates "snapshot" mechanism to take > a frozen snapshot of the filesystem state and then run your > checksumming/fingerprinting scan on that. > Ok, that sounds like a good idea. Not really knowing what this was I went and rea

Re: Dilemma.

2001-04-19 Thread Jordan Hubbard
You probably want to use the soft updates "snapshot" mechanism to take a frozen snapshot of the filesystem state and then run your checksumming/fingerprinting scan on that. At that point it's obviously going to be divergent with the ongoing state of the filesystem if that filesystem is active, bu

Re: Dilemma.

2001-04-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:31:52AM -0400, Paul Halliday wrote: > Hi. > > I will try to make this quick. I am writting a little monitoring script > in bash and I have run into a little > stumbling block. Basically, one of the checks this program will perform > is to take a fingerprint of the

Re: Dilemma.

2001-04-19 Thread Paul Halliday
Troy Corbin wrote: > > will your monitoring script be publicly available? > > -troy heh.. I doubt anyone would want it when it is complete. I have attached what I have so far. Which isnt much. you can see what it checks, I still need to add the check for running processes. Anyw

Dilemma.

2001-04-19 Thread Paul Halliday
Hi. I will try to make this quick. I am writting a little monitoring script in bash and I have run into a little stumbling block. Basically, one of the checks this program will perform is to take a fingerprint of the entire filesystem. For my needs this is only required every 24 hours as