From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 16:47:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E2516A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:47:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.hwi.buffalo.edu (cliff.hwi.buffalo.edu [128.205.85.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D4B243FBD for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:47:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rcollins@hwi.buffalo.edu) Received: (qmail 21431 invoked by uid 90); 5 Nov 2003 00:47:16 -0000 Received: from rcollins@hwi.buffalo.edu by cliff.hwi.buffalo.edu by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20rc3 (vexira: 6.22.0.1. Clear:RC:1:. Processed in 0.016217 secs); 05 Nov 2003 00:47:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.hwi.buffalo.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Nov 2003 00:47:16 -0000 Received: from 141.149.242.190 (SquirrelMail authenticated user rcollins) by mail.hwi.buffalo.edu with HTTP; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:47:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4529.141.149.242.190.1067993236.squirrel@mail.hwi.buffalo.edu> In-Reply-To: <20031104180932.GA70958@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <001901c3a2de$7ab72c10$6855cd80@dhcp.hwi.buffalo.edu> <20031104180932.GA70958@rot13.obsecurity.org> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:47:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert Collins" To: "Kris Kennaway" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Veractiy and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:47:23 -0000 > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:18:12AM -0500, Robert Collins wrote: >> I'm trying to get veracity (http://www.rocksoft.com/veracity/), a >> tripwire >> replacement, working on FreeBSD 5.x. When I try and create a snapshot I >> get >> the following error for files sitting on my root partition: >> >> -- snip snip -- >> >> csh.logout >> E: Error opening binary (B) stream of file >> "/etc/csh.logout". >> (OS error message="File is on the procfs (/proc) device."). >> E: Could not obtain attribute B.md5 for this file. >> >> -- snip snip -- >> >> I've tried taking both PROCFS and PSEUDOFS out of the kernel, to no >> avail. >> Anyone have any other ideas? > > Talk to the authors? > Kris, The last line of my e-mail was originally "Anyone have any other ideas before I go back to trying to contact their non-existant technical support?" But I figured I would be nice. :) I spoke to someone from rocksoft, but it's a long uninformative story. Thanks for the idea though. -rcollins