On Wednesday, December 19, 2001, at 04:51 PM, Benjamin Turner wrote:
> If you poke around in your /Library/Receipts directory, you will find > that many packages (maybe all, I didn't look that closely) contain some > sort of *.bom file (which seems to be binary). If I'm not mistaken, BOM > is an acronym for Bill Of Materials. All of this seems to indicate that > it is indeed part of the software packaging/updating system that Apple > uses. > If you apply the 'lsbom' command to one of those BOM files, you'll get a wealth of information. I have a perl script that I use to parse the bom files to get the original owners, groups, modes, etc of installed files and compare them to their current states. It's very useful when you're trying to help people who have been playing with root or playing with one of the little shareware utilities out there and put their systems into an unusable state. I didn't know about the BOM module, and haven't looked at it so haven't a clue as to what it does. - Larry Prall # rm -rf /bin/laden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get my key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371 PGP ID: 0x9678436B PGP Fingerprint: 55BB 3E53 367D 0AB9 4C34 8458 313B 82BB 9678 436B
