Veractiy and FreeBSD

Robert Collins rcollins at hwi.buffalo.edu
Tue Nov 4 16:47:23 PST 2003


> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:18:12AM -0500, Robert Collins wrote:
>> I'm trying to get veracity (http://www.rocksoft.com/veracity/), a
>> tripwire
>> replacement, working on FreeBSD 5.x. When I try and create a snapshot I
>> get
>> the following error for files sitting on my root partition:
>>
>> -- snip snip --
>>
>>    csh.logout
>>       E: Error opening binary (B) stream of file
>>          "/etc/csh.logout".
>>          (OS error message="File is on the procfs (/proc) device.").
>>       E: Could not obtain attribute B.md5 for this file.
>>
>> -- snip snip --
>>
>> I've tried taking both PROCFS and PSEUDOFS out of the kernel, to no
>> avail.
>> Anyone have any other ideas?
>
> Talk to the authors?
>

Kris,

The last line of my e-mail was originally "Anyone have any other ideas
before I go back to trying to contact their non-existant technical
support?" But I figured I would be nice. :)

I spoke to someone from rocksoft, but it's a long uninformative story.

Thanks for the idea though.
-rcollins


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