Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:25:39 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: hawkeyd@visi.com Cc: Jesper Louis Andersen <jlouis@mongers.org> Subject: Re: mtree vs tripwire Message-ID: <26259.1074104739@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:21:54 CST." <20040114182154.GA22444@sheol.localdomain>
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In message <20040114182154.GA22444@sheol.localdomain>, D J Hawkey Jr writes: >On Jan 14, at 07:09 PM, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote: >> >> > This might seem really naive, but can mtree be used effectively as >> > a native-to-core-OS tripwire equivalent? Would it be as efficient in >> > terms of time-to-run and resource requirements? >> >> Pro: distributed with base >> Con: Only available for *BSD architectures as far as my knowledge goes. > >I'm aware of both, yes; hence my question. FreeBSD is all I'm dealing >with, where my question is concerned. > >Is your reply from personal experience, or is it the same "Hey, it >could..." as is my question? If the former, would you elaborate on the >implementation details? Mtree works as well if not slightly better (knows about file-flags) on FreeBSD. I'm using mtree a lot for various purposes, including a contents-addressable archive system I've been using to make backups of my home-dir for a couple of years. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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