Package: tiger
Version: 1:3.2.3-6periapt6
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream patch
It would be nice if you could set the Tiger_FSScan_PruneDirs
parameter as a pipe-separated list of directories to be pruned from
the find command. A suggested patch will be attached.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages tiger depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-15 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii bsdmainutils 8.2.1 collection of more utilities from
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.38 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.11.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii lsof 4.81.dfsg.1-1 List open files
ii net-tools 1.60-23 The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages tiger recommends:
ii chkrootkit 0.49-4 rootkit detector
ii exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-tran 4.72-3+b1 Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii john 1.7.3.1-1 active password cracking tool
tiger suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron.d/tiger changed [not included]
-- debconf information:
* tiger/mail_rcpt: root
* tiger/policy_adapt:
Author: Nicholas Bamber <nicho...@periapt.co.uk>
Subject: allow certain directories to be pruned from search
Last-Update: 2011-01-22
--- a/scripts/find_files
+++ b/scripts/find_files
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
#
# find_files - 06/14/93
#
+# 22/01/2011 npb Add FINDPRUNE support
# 02/26/2010 fgclaramonte Properly remove the temporary mountlist file
# generated by the script
#
@@ -42,17 +43,6 @@
# some new filename patterns to search for.
#
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# TODO:
-# - There is not currently a way for admins to have find _not_ go through
-# directories that might be too big or should not be reviewed, consider
-# using the -prune option (in combination with the defined FINEPRUNEOPT
-# in configuration) like this:
-# -a \! -name NAME -prune -a \! -name "*REGEXP*" -prune
-#
-# - Alternative, allow the admin to restrict the depth of the test using
-# -maxdepth
-#
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
TigerInstallDir='.'
@@ -269,19 +259,29 @@
rw=rw
[ "x$Tiger_FSScan_ReadOnly" = 'xY' ] && rw=
+if [ -n "$Tiger_FSScan_PruneDirs" ]; then
+ saveifs="$IFS"
+ IFS='|'
+ for p in $Tiger_FSScan_PruneDirs
+ do
+ FINDPRUNE="$FINDPRUNE --path $p --prune "
+ done
+ IFS="$saveifs"
+fi
+
{
if [ ! -n "$FINDXDEV" ]; then
echo "$FINDPRUNE"
echo "/"
elif haveallcmds GETDISKS; then
- echo "$FINDXDEV"
+ echo "$FINDXDEV $FINDPRUNE"
$GETDISKS
elif haveallcmds GET_MOUNTS; then
#
# This will do each file system in series... slower,
# but better than banging the heads around.
#
- echo "$FINDXDEV"
+ echo "$FINDXDEV $FINDPRUNE"
echo "`$GET_MOUNTS local all`"
else
echo "$FINDPRUNE"
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@
# Do not change these variable names
otherfile="${outfile}.other.$counter"
-# echo "$FIND x $findpruneopt $findopt -print" 1>&2
+ echo "$FIND x $findpruneopt $findopt -print" 1>&2
for mountpt in $disklist
do
# Not sure why we're cd'ing to /, but it breaks all relative paths
--- a/tigerrc
+++ b/tigerrc
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@
Tiger_FSScan_WarnUnknown=Y # Warn about unknown filesystems used
Tiger_FSScan_Local='' # Filesystems considered to be local to the
system, pipe-separated
Tiger_FSScan_NonLocal='' # Filesystems considered to be non-local to the
system, pipe-separated
+Tiger_FSScan_PruneDirs='' # pipe-separated directories not to be considered
#
# Should we scan read-only filesystems
#
