Re: mtree vs tripwire

From: Lowell Gilbert (freebsd-security-local_at_be-well.ilk.org)
Date: 01/21/04

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Date: 20 Jan 2004 19:40:28 -0500

    Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> writes:

    > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:38:55AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
    > > Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@freebsd.org> writes:
    > > > I use:
    > > >
    > > > mtree -K sha1digest -c -X mtree.exclude -p / > mtree.out
    > <snip>
    > > > Although I am sure there is a better way to do it with mtree, to
    > > > see if something has changed, I repeat the process and diff the
    > > > output.
    > >
    > > That would be
    > > mtree < mtree.out
    > > to have mtree do it itself.
    >
    > I just now tried this:
    >
    > [root@athena ~/landmine]# ls -l
    > total 41746
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 46 Jan 20 14:58 mtree.exclude
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 42713965 Jan 20 16:19 mtree.out
    > [root@athena ~/landmine]# mtree < mtree.out
    > mtree: line 270131: unknown keyword Burg
    >
    > I'm fairly certain that that's not the intended result ;-)
    >
    > That line, BTW, is just a file name with a space in it:
    >
    > link=/opt/SC3U/buildings/Den Burg Bruges.bld
    >
    > Am I missing somethign fairly simple?

    Hmm. I've never had this problem, and when I try to trigger it
    deliberately, I find that my mtree specification has the spaces in the
    filenames escaped.

    e.g.,
        foo\040bar\040baz \

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