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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: trouple with tripwire in FreeBSD 2.1
To: brion@queeg.com (Brion Moss)
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 17:39:37 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199601131803.KAA07260@coven.queeg.com> from "Brion Moss" at Jan 13, 96 10:03:38 am
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> When tripwire (v1.2) is building its database with "tripwire -initialize",
> it aborts in phase 3 (Creating file information database) with
> "truncate(): invalid argument".  I looked at the source and couldn't
> see anything wrong with their use of truncate.  Has anyone else had
> this problem?

It is truncating a file long, right?

I'm not sure how well this works...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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