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To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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Subject: Re: tripwire and device numbers 
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In message <201003041953.o24JrDhi038522@lava.sentex.ca>, Mike Tancsa writes:

>While getting a box ready for deployment, I noticed on two occasions, 
>I would get some exception reports flagging all files as the 
>underlying device number through reboots had changed.  Is this 
>"normal" for Tripwire and FreeBSD ? (RELENG_7)

Yes, device numbers in freebsd carry no meaning,  unless it is
a compat /dev directory to boot ancient systems (SunOS, very
old FreeBSD etc) diskless.

In general, tripwire should ignore devfs and possibly all pseudo-fs
mount-points.

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