Re: tripwire does not update

[Devon <devon tuxfan homeip net>]

On Thursday 23 August 2001 02:47 am, Hyung Kim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed tripwire on RH7.1.  After creating my
> passphrases and creating a custom policy file, I
> initialized the database.  I am able to perform
> "tripwire --check", however, when I try "tripwire
> --update", I get the following errors:
>
> Error:  File could not be opened
> Filename:
> //var/lib/tripwire/report/sunshine-20010823-012920.twr
> No such file or directory
> exiting
>
> The file specified in the error does not exist, but
> the file created during a previous check is in the
> same folder.  I am using the default configuration
> file.
>

You have to tell tripwire what report file to use for updating the 
database. The command I use is:
tripwire --update -a -r /var/lib/tripwire/report/($name)
where $name is the name of the file created by tripwire --check

Hope that helps,

-D