Re: Is there an easy way of knowing if your definitions are updated?

[waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>]

On 1/13/2011 22:29, ccie 6862 wrote:
> I've looked at the various rule files, and some have a date stamp, while others don't. Even though the rpc.rules file 
> is updated (AFAIK), the version shows the following:
>
> # $Id: rpc.rules,v 1.107.2.11 2010/10/26 16:30:34 vrtbuild Exp $
>
> This is the same for the various rule files where the date stamp is several months out. We get the email every night, 
> but there is always a question in the back of our minds if things are current.
>
> What are other people doing?

make sure that you are looking all the way thru the files... some of them got 
farkled a few months back and the new data (rules lines) are/were being tacked 
on to the head of the file instead of the tail below the header... there are a 
few that are still messed up IIRC from the last time i went wading...

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