On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:07:01AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 22:07, sean finney wrote: > > am i missing something here? > > > > find /usr/share -exec file {} \; | grep executable > > The problem with that is that some packages have documentation, example files, > and template files under /usr/share which are recognised as executables. it was a crude example to get a point across. i think you could sufficiently modify a similar script to suit your needs: find /usr/share -path /usr/share/doc -prune -o -type f -exec file {} \; | grep executable | grep -E 'script|whatever' > Also this problem will be more difficult to solve for LIDS and other security > modules that perform access control based on file names as all those names > will have to be known by the kernel. can they be given a list of filenames, or do you want regular expressions? sean
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