On 4 Nov 2019, at 17:22, Michael Newman via macports-users wrote:
The only solution offered by the developer of DetectX was to tell
DetectX to ignore changes to macports plist files.
That seems to defeat the purpose of DetectX.
DetectX is supposed to warn you of possible nefarious changes to your
system. Choosing to ignore a possible problem is no solution.
There is no rational explanation for the DetectX claim that the
postgresql83-server launchd plist is changing repeatedly. That file is
gone: you removed the port. Unless you are repeatedly installing and
uninstalling the postgresql83-server port, that file IS NOT flashing in
and out of existence.
I don't use DetectX so I can't say for sure, but it seems to me that
this behavior is consistent with it having a saved state of some sort
against which it is comparing the current state. In other words: DetectX
remembers that the postgresql83-server plist was there before, and sees
that it isn't there now.
If that is a correct guess about how DetectX works, then there should be
some way to update the saved state to accommodate the disappearance of a
file without permanently ignoring a whole class of similarly situated
files.
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Bill Cole
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(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
