Re: ext4 features

Bill Davidsen
2006-07-05T02:32:06Z

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

>On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:00:38 EDT, Bill Davidsen said:
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>>Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
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>>>There's other issues as well. Why do people run 'tripwire' on boxes that
>>>have RAID on them?
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>>What has RAID got to do with detecting hacking?
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>Actually, I've had tripwire detect more *accidental* changes due to buggy
>software than I have had it detect actual hacking. Oh, and it's good at
>catching unintended config changes - I started using tripwire after I
>fat-fingered a script, and the machine backed up to /dev/null instead of
>/dev/rmt0.
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But it ran faster, right? ;-)

>In fact, I've never actually had tripwire detect actual hacking.
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I was using hacking in the general sense, I have a spiffy quote around
about being in more danger from incompetence than malice. Patches with
side effects, changes which work but reset directory permissions and/or
ownership... I think it was Pogo who said "we have met the enemy and he
is us."

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979