Re: Veractiy and FreeBSD

From: Robert Collins (rcollins_at_hwi.buffalo.edu)
Date: 11/05/03

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To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>

    > 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
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