On 2010-05-17 5:19 PM, John Horne wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 15:11 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>> You can either whitelist the files or disable the 'immutable' test
>>> completely.

>> I don't mind disabling the test completely if it isn't very useful (this
>> is what I was told about the 'applications' test a while back)... but is
>> that what you are saying?

> The test is useful, but only for those systems which do not have the
> immutable bit set. If your system has the bit set on most system
> commands, then you will get a lot of false-positives. In that case the
> test is not useful, so it can be disabled. Having said that I guess it
> could be useful if the test could be reversed - so in your case it would
> report any command which does not have the bit set. I will consider
> that.

Ok - so, you're saying this is a *new* test that didn't exist in 1.3.4?
Remember, 1.3.4 was running for many months without ever having one
warning like this.

Thanks John...

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