On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:12 AM, dkoleary <[email protected]> wrote:

> Has anyone modified the defaults in any significant way and have any
> feedback on the quantity/quality of the resulting alerts?

Yes.

We monitor 20-30 Linux and Unix (BSD) servers and none are using the
default directory configuration. My reasoning was the same as yours -
outside of specific, identifiable cases, those filesystems should be
static. Assuming you do your homework ahead of time regarding what
actually DOES change on your filesystems (have a /usr/local/tmp or a
/var/tmp, for example? some application in /usr/local that writes
changes to its directory?), the alert count should not be any higher
than using the defaults (if anything it may be lower - configuring for
your environment is key).

kmw

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