Re: Tripwire: Fatal Exception

[Keith Mastin <kmastin beechtree ca>]

>Every time I run
>
>   # tripwire --check
>
>I get
>
>   Parsing policy file: /etc/tripwire/twpol.txt
>   *** Fatal exception: 9exception
>   *** Exiting...
>
>It used to run...  I thought at first it was due to an upgrade to the
>errata 2.4.18-17.7.x kernel, but it occurs even if I boot with the
>previous kernel.
>
>Any ideas? Google is silent, except for one person who replaced his
>database to fix a similar problem. I now only replaced my database, but
>I also installed the latest version (2.3-37) of Tripwire from
>tripwire.org.

It's not supposed to check the .txt file, it's supposed to check the 
tw.pol file, so my guess is you didn't do either twadmin --create-polfile 
twpol.txt or tripwire --init

It's also a bad idea to leave the .txt and .sh files in /etc/tripwire. 
Best to move those to the root account and make them immutable and give 
them 0700 permissions.

HTH