Re: monitoring FIFOs permissions

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 26. des. 2005, at 00.16, Martin Pala wrote:

> Example syntax:
>
>   check fifo qmgr-fifo with path /var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr
>     if failed permission 622 then alert
>     if failed uid postfix then alert
>     if failed gid postdrop then alert
>
> If developers will agree, i can add it to the cvs.

Hmm, my initial thought on this is that instead of creating a new  
specialized file check-service and "duplicate" code, another option  
is to, during parse-time, issue an error when if-checks that is not  
supported by the concrete file is used. Since there are many  
different files on Unix we may end up with lots of new specialized  
statements if we start. We already have three specialized statements  
for file; directory, device and file which should suffice IMHO. The  
end-functionality should be the same and we keep the name-space in  
the control file small.

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland
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