From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Feb 17 16:59: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from wondermutt.net (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 303C137B87F for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:59:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Received: from morgaine (morgaine.wondermutt.net [192.168.1.2]) by wondermutt.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA02952; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:59:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Message-Id: <4.1.20000217195347.0096b610@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:56:24 -0500 To: m , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: John Subject: Re: tripwire In-Reply-To: <20000218005233.9FF7E639F0@zagnut.hotpop.com> References: <001401bf7992$65de0b20$d265fea9@osyras> <4.1.20000217164209.00953970@mail.udel.edu> <001401bf7992$65de0b20$d265fea9@osyras> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> what is tripwire? > > Probably a firewall. Security, wire, a proxy or something. If you're ever not sure, sometimes the easiest way to find out is to check out the ports tree. Going onto the web site and to: http://www.freebsd.org/ports gives you a search option to search the ports. In turn, searching for "tripwire" will give you a *brief* description: tripwire-1.2 File system security and verification program Maintained by: jgreco@ns.sol.net Also listed in: net Description : Sources : Changes : Download Following the link labeled "Description" will in turn get you, in this case, two paragraphs of information. It'll help to figure out what each of the ports is. --John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message