FWIW -
I sync my home dir to my laptop (and back) on a regular basis, and
always receive this message (in addition to a few other programs
whose license files become invalid). Even if the file content is not
changing, LS may be sensitive enough to notice an access change or
other metadata change and alert you that someone else has touched the
file.
As long as you see this message after a backup or restore that you
initiated, I would not worry about it.
To be sure that nothing is changing, you could keep a separate copy
of your config file (~/Library/Application Support/Little Snitch/
config.plist) somewhere safe and compare the files (or the md5
checksum of the files) to verify that nothing functional has changed.
e.g. in Terminal:
> cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Little\ Snitch
# create your backup copy somewhere
> cp -p config.plist ~/Desktop/myConfig.plist
# result should be the same if files are identical
> md5 config.plist ~/Desktop/myConfig.plist
MD5 (config.plist) = 461119e2c0f04d3861b318cd7277c682
MD5 (~/Desktop/myConfig.plist) = 461119e2c0f04d3861b318cd7277c682
# this will produce no output if files match
> diff -u config.plist ~/Desktop/myConfig.plist
# You might have to have dev tools installed, but this will be the
easiest way to compare changes if there are any
> opendiff config.plist ~/Desktop/myConfig.plist
-brad
On Jun 5, 2006, at 9:34 PM, charlie wrote:
sorry bro,
i missed the earlier part of this conversation, but if you are
talking about a message when restoring a drive, i have seen this
before with LS and Carbon Copy Cloner -
basically it seems that the rules you have created are restored,
but when a full backup of your HD is done, LS does not recognize
that these rules have been created by you - because some files
somewhere have been excluded from the backup.
hence the message, "Default config has been changed!"
i always load the CHANGED config - after all, it's a restore of my
own HD, which only i have had access to, and which has been
offline. I've done this on two occasions over 2-3 years and never
had a problem.
Of course the LS staff should not tell us what file it is that is
not being restored (CCC ignores cache and temp files i think), as
this would be "helping the enemy...."
if i've completely misunderstood your post, then apologies for
jumping in.
cheers
Al wrote:
Yes, it gave me the option to restore the default rules, which I did.
Have you seen any weirdness with the app superduper and little
snitch? After a full backup is made of the system could that
affect it?
al
On 5/31/06, *Marco Palmers* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
On 31.05.2006, Al wrote:
> The message says 'Deny these changes or Accept the
> changes to investigate what has changed'
> [...]
> I have reinstated the default rules, but this message has
me very
> concerned.
How did you know which ones are default, did you just reinstall
little snitch?
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