[F8] Tripwire [SOLVED]

Daniel B. Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Fri Feb 8 19:48:28 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 09:18 -0800, Todd Zullinger wrote:

> Daniel B. Thurman wrote: 
> > I have downloaded and tried out Tripwire and I noticed: 
> > 
> > /etc/cron.daily/tripwire-check: 
> > 
> > ****    Error: Tripwire database for gold.cdkkt.com not found.
> **** 
> > **** Run /etc/tripwire/twinstall.sh and/or tripwire --init. **** 
> > 
> > Ok, I searched for: twinstall.sh using find, it does not exist. 
> > 
> > I went into /etc, then: 
> > cp twcfg.txt tw.cfg 
> > cp twpol.txt te.pol 
> > 
> > Ran: tripwire --init 
> > ========================= 
> > ### Error: Invalid input stream format. 
> > ### 
> > ### File: /etc/tripwire/tw.cfg 
> > ### Configuration file could not be read. 
> > ### Exiting... 
> > ========================= 
> > 
> > What's wrong?
> 
> Did you checkout /usr/share/doc/tripwire-2.4.1.2/README.Fedora?  That 
> has some specific info for using tripwire as installed by the Fedora 
> packages.  It also points you to the Tripwire policy guide for other 
> post installation details.  Perhaps you're jumping the gun on running 
> the tripwire --init?
> 
> The cron output seems like it should be modified to point new users
> to 
> the README.Fedora file rather than mentioning an install script that 
> does not exist.  File a bug perhaps?
> 


Thanks for pointing me to the doc source - I forgot to look there!
The information is very clear and concise, other than the cron message.

Dan
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