Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:43:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mtree vs /usr/src Message-ID: <199709221943.MAA18257@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <874926893.273098@haywire.dialix.com.au> from "Peter Wemm" at Sep 22, 97 11:14:53 am
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> I've been toying with the idea of a 'nochange' attribute for the mtree > specs. ie: it'll create the file/directory if it is missing, but will not > touch it if it's already there. If you do this, it should warn about differences. If you want to get rid of the warnings, then you would modify the data it is using. This would also be useful for detecting some security problems, either malicious, or in the making. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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