Re: Tripwire: Fatal Exception

["Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vladimir acm org>]

Keith,

That does seem to be the problem on system. Thanks. And thanks also for
the reminder of moving *.txt and *.sh files elsewhere.

--- Vladimir

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"KM" == Keith Mastin <kmastin beechtree ca> writes:

  >> 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.

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

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

  KM> HTH



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