From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 22 12:44:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA13111 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:44:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr06.primenet.com (tlambert@usr06.primenet.com [206.165.6.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA13100 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:44:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA18257; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:43:43 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709221943.MAA18257@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: mtree vs /usr/src To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:43:43 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <874926893.273098@haywire.dialix.com.au> from "Peter Wemm" at Sep 22, 97 11:14:53 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.