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Date:      Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:59:07 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tripwire and device numbers
Message-ID:  <863a0f569g.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <3402.1267736139@critter.freebsd.dk> (Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:55:39 %2B0000")
References:  <3402.1267736139@critter.freebsd.dk>

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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> 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.

Nothing to do with devfs; IIUC, tripwire is complaining about st.st_dev
on regular files and directories.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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