Re: tripwire

[Florian Bantner <f.bantner@axon-e.de>]

On Mit, 05 Jun 2002, sma ten wrote:

> hi,
> i've installed tripwire with apt-get but now i don't really know how it works...
> in fact i've already used tripwire but with the source code .tar.gz and i remember that i have to execute 'tripwire --check' to test the integrity ... but now i didn't find how to replace this command ... i've just 2 commands
> one to create database
> one to update the database but i don't want to update i just want to check system integrity ...
> so i need help ... before i remove it and install the source code instead

Hi,

tripwire is a little special to other debian packages. 
first at all have a look under /usr/lib/tripwire. There you'll
find (nearly) everything you need. The tripwire executable there
is the one you want to run.

Integrity-checking is run by cron-daily and the result is mailed
to [conf it in /etc/tripwire/tw.config]. 

The reason why tripwire (exe) is not (e.g.) in /usr/bin is that
it is strongly recommended to copy the whole thing on a removeable
media (zip-drive/cd etc.) and write-protect it. 

Checking by hand is done by simply running 'tripwire [-q]' without
other options.

Hope that helps.

Florian

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