Re: [Integrit-users] problem with conf file

[Ed L C. <ec...@ug...>]

int...@tt... writes:

> Hi List,
>
> First off, to the developers who read this - thanks. I've been using
> integrit for 2 years and I think it does the job great. Its saved my
> skin more than once.

Great!

> Now I'm starting to use it to detect file system corruption instead of
> for security. At the moment I just want to check one directory on this
> huge drive. The directory contains 4000 files, and are about 12MB
> each, for a total of 46GB of data.
>
> I'm only interested in looking at the md5sum at the moment, and
> things were taking a long time. Anyway - I've tried to edit the
> config file so that it in effect does nothing (by turning off all
> flags). It still takes a long time to run[2] - why?
>
> Heres my config for integrit 2.01:

That version is a bit old.  I had to check the Changes file to remind
myself of what it was like.  

>
> ----
> root=/mighty/files
> current=/nutter/data/perl/localintegrit/mighty.current.db
> known=/nutter/data/perl/localintegrit/mighty.known.db
>
> /mighty/files SIPLUGZAMCR  #shouldn't this turn off all checking?

It turns off all the operations.  The prefixes control which files
integrit visits, like ! and =.

> ----
>
> Another question. I want to use the latest integrit - but I've got a
> load of scripts in place to do the work and I'm wondering if the
> interface or behaviour has changed at all. I've read the changelog and
> can't find anything - but it can't hurt to ask!

Did you read the "Changes" file?  It should have everything
significant, including points where the version number changed.

I think the main thing is that the exit status behavior changed.  It
used to use zero if no errors occured and 1 if an error occured, where
an error means integrit was unable to do its job.

Now the exit status is (from texinfo docs):


`0'
     When integrit returns zero to the process that started integrit, it
     means that no changes were detected.  (Unless you are doing a
     check, no changes will be detected.)

`1'
     An exit status of one means that changes were detected but no
     errors were encountered.  (An error is a failure condition that
     prevents integrit from doing its job.)

`2'
     Two signifies that an error occured, and integrit was not able to
     do its job.


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