On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:45:57PM +0100, Daouda LO wrote:
> --=-=-=
> Name        : tripwire                     Relocations: (not relocateable)
> Version     : 2.3.1.2                           Vendor: MandrakeSoft
> Release     : 5mdk                          Build Date: Sat Feb  1 23:30:19 2003
> Install date: (not installed)               Build Host: no.mandrakesoft.com
> Group       : Monitoring                    Source RPM: (none)
> Size        : 1269430                          License: GPL
> Packager    : Mandrake Linux Team <http://www.mandrakeexpert.com>
> URL         : http://www.tripwire.org/
> Summary     : A system integrity assessment tool.
> Description :
> Tripwire is a very valuable security tool for Linux systems, if it is
> installed to a clean system.  Tripwire should be installed right after
> the OS installation, and before you have connected your system to a
> network (i.e., before any possibility exists that someone could alter
> files on your system).
> 
> When Tripwire is initially set up, it creates a database that records
> certain file information.  Then when it is run, it compares a
> designated set of files and directories to the information stored in
> the database.  Added or deleted files are flagged and reported, as are
> any files that have changed from their previously recorded state in
> the database.  When Tripwire is run against system files on a regular
> basis, any file changes will be spotted when Tripwire is run.
> Tripwire will report the changes, which will give system
> administrators a clue that they need to enact damage control measures
> immediately if certain files have been altered.
> 
> Extra-paranoid Tripwire users will set it up to run once a week and
> e-mail the results to themselves.  Then if the e-mails stop coming,
> you'll know someone has gotten to the Tripwire program...
> 
> After installing this package, you should run "/etc/tripwire/twinstall.sh"
> to generate cryptographic keys, and "tripwire --init" to initialize the
> database.
> 
> Exclusivearch: i386 
> --=-=-=
> 
> * Sat Feb 01 2003 Daouda LO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.3.1.2-5mdk
> 
> - rebuild 
> - add patch for gcc3 support (bug # 1182)
> - synced with rh patches.
> - use mkstemp, not mktemp
> - source from cvs.

I hope the mktemp to mkstemp transition was made properly.  Last time
when snailtalk decided to go through and patch a bunch of apps (mutt for
example) to use mkstemp he didn't bother to notice they have different
interfaces and can't be used interchangeably.


-- 
Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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