[olug] Tripwire policy file setup

[Brian Roberson]

/var/lock/subsys  is the directory where pid files go, What I normally will
do is only check for suid files in /var/  ; but that's just me, I am sure
some people would have a different point of view ;-)




----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Kauffman" <dkauffman at tconl.com>
To: "OLUG" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: [olug] Tripwire policy file setup


> I have kind of a newbie question. Here's the situation. I'm trying to
> set up tripwire for the first time on a box that hasn't been on the net.
> I ran tripwire --check after initializing the data base. and I'm seeing
> there's a lot of files missing.  The majority are in /var/lock/subsys
> (e.g.. /var/lock/subsys/ripd). I checked the policy file and sure enough
> they are listed. I started to comment them out but then I thought I'd
> better check on this. I don't want to see errors on files I know aren't
> there. At the same time, however, I want to know what is important to have
>
> My questions are:
> 1> how important are these individual /var/lock/subsys/* files?
> 2> how do they get created?
> 3> what would I have to do to get them created?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Don Kauffman
> Email: mailto:dkauffman at tconl.com
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