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- CheckConfig
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- Arguably THE most important step in using tripwire on your system is the
- creation of a config file for the host. The config file for you machine must
- reflect vendor as well as local file structure conventions.
-
- For example on suns, /var and /usr are functionally equivelent, except with
- tripwire which cares that one is a symlink to the other. Some vendors (NeXT)
- put network tools such as nslookup in /usr/etc while other vendors (HP) put
- them in /usr/bin
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- On some installations, the convention is to fill /usr/local with new code, on
- some locations /usr/local is full of symlinks which point to new code, some
- locations might decide to put new code in /Local.
-
- Since the config file MUST match the flavour of your system, CheckConfig was
- created to parse the tripwire.config file and report anomilies.
-
- usage:: CheckConfig [-v] file
-
- In non-verbose mode, CheckConfig reports merely on the existance of symbolic
- links in the file. This warns you that a symlink instead of a directory
- hierarchy or file is being monitored by tripwire.
-
- In verbose mode, CheckConfig also shouts about non-existant files and lists
- all other entries as either directories or files.
-
- Lance Bailey <lrb@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca>
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