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Re: syslog idea


From: grue () engin umich edu (Paul Howell)
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 21:52:25 EDT


Fred Blonder writes:
The limitation of Tripwire in this application is that log files are
ALWAYS (well, almost) changing, so if Tripwire raised the alarm on a
logfile, your reaction should be: "So what?".  ;-)

I thought that tripwire would report if the log file got smaller, 
an indication that someone is removing records, yes?

At least that seems like a reasonable thing to me.

< Paul



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