[Aide] "May not be a directory"
Marc Haber
mh+aide at zugschlus.de
Sat Dec 10 20:43:37 EET 2005
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 08:37:46PM +0200, Virolainen Pablo wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
> >> The problem about this approach is that we need to stat the entry before
> >> include/exclude decision can be made. This might be problematic with
> >> jammed nfs mounts.
> >
> > Personally, I find it a bad idea to have aide running over remote file
> > systems. Shouldn't these file systems be checked on the server?
>
> This is exactly the reason why this kind of feature is not implemented in
> aide. To able to implement the feature, one needs to stat the node.
> Statting nfs mount point means reading data from the server -> thing to
> avoid.
And if it happens, it's the mistake of the local admin who should have
excluded that mount point with an unconditional negative rule.
Greetings
Marc
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