"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]> writes:
> Mike Tancsa <[email protected]> writes:
> > While getting a box ready for deployment, I noticed on two
> > occasions, I would get some exception reports flagging all files as
> > the underlying device number through reboots had changed.  Is this
> > "normal" for Tripwire and FreeBSD ? (RELENG_7)
> Yes, device numbers in freebsd carry no meaning, unless it is a compat
> /dev directory to boot ancient systems (SunOS, very old FreeBSD etc)
> diskless.
>
> In general, tripwire should ignore devfs and possibly all pseudo-fs
> mount-points.

Nothing to do with devfs; IIUC, tripwire is complaining about st.st_dev
on regular files and directories.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected]
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