<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hello,</div><div>I have a question about the parameter <em>behavior</em> in <em>textfilecontent54_object</em>.</div><div> </div><div>There are two objects:</div><div><p><strong><em>first:</em></strong></p><p><em><textfilecontent54_object id="oval:ru.altx-soft.nix:obj:2118511" version="1" xmlns="http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5#independent"> </em><br><em> <behaviors recurse_direction="down" recurse="symlinks"/> </em><br><em> <path>/usr/tmp</path></em><br><em> <filename operation="pattern match">.*file.*</filename></em><br><em> <pattern operation="pattern match">.*</pattern></em><br><em> <instance datatype="int">1</instance></em><br><em> </textfilecontent54_object></em></p><p><em><strong>second:</strong></em></p><p><em><textfilecontent54_object id="oval:ru.altx-soft.nix:obj:211851" version="1" xmlns="http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5#independent"></em><br><em> <behaviors recurse_direction="down" recurse="symlinks and directories"/> </em><br><em> <path>/usr/tmp</path></em><br><em> <filename operation="pattern match">.*file.*</filename></em><br><em> <pattern operation="pattern match">.*</pattern></em><br><em> <instance datatype="int">1</instance></em><br><em> </textfilecontent54_object></em></p></div><div>The directory <em>/usr/tmp/</em> which is checked contains next files:</div><div><p>[root@Centosc64bitdesktop tmp]# ls -al<br>total 12<br>drwxrwxrwt. 3 root root 4096 Jan 29 10:24 .<br>drwxr-xr-x. 18 root root 4096 Jan 13 16:16<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> ..</span><br>lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 Jan 29 10:18 <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255);">dir</span> -> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">/root</span><br>drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jan 29 10:18<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> dir2</span><br>-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jan 29 10:17 file<br>lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Jan 29 10:24 <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255);">filelink</span> -> /32/hosts</p></div><div><p>[root@Centosc64bitdesktop tmp]# ls /usr/tmp/file -al<br>-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jan 29 10:17 /usr/tmp/file</p><p>[root@Centosc64bitdesktop tmp]# ls /root/file -al<br>-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jan 29 10:18 /root/file</p></div><div>When I choose <em>recurse="symlinks and directories"</em> it follow <em>dir</em> directory but when I use <em>recurse="symlinks"</em> it does not.</div><div>This item does not exist in first object:</div><div><p><em><ind-sys:textfilecontent_item id="1342992" status="exists"></em><br><em> <ind-sys:filepath>/usr/tmp/file</ind-sys:filepath></em><br><em> <ind-sys:path>/usr/tmp</ind-sys:path></em><br><em> <ind-sys:filename>file</ind-sys:filename></em><br><em> <ind-sys:pattern>.*</ind-sys:pattern></em><br><em> <ind-sys:instance datatype="int">1</ind-sys:instance></em><br><em> <ind-sys:line>.*</ind-sys:line></em><br><em> <ind-sys:text></ind-sys:text></em><br><em> </ind-sys:textfilecontent_item></em></p></div><div>Tell me why.</div><div><br></div><div><span name="x"></span><div>With Best Regards,<br>Maria Mikhno (Kedovskaya)<br>Altex-Soft<br>kmn@altx-soft.ru | <a href="http://www.altx-soft.ru/" data-mce-href="http://www.altx-soft.ru/">altx-soft.ru</a> | <a href="http://www.altex-soft.com/" data-mce-href="http://www.altex-soft.com/">altex-soft.com</a></div><div><hr></div><div><a href="http://www.altex-soft.com/" data-mce-href="http://www.altex-soft.com/"><img src="cid:34594fd94c20e80b6964770fcb9eb04b4c29dc9a@zimbra" data-mce-src="http://mail.altx-soft.ru/home/kmn@altx-soft.ru/Briefcase/altx_logo_en.png" doc="Briefcase/altx_logo_en.png"></a></div><span name="x"></span><br></div></div></body></html>