Re: monitoring FIFOs permissions

[Olivier Kaloudoff]

Ok,

        I'll use Martin's patch for the moment,
and will take care to apply it for each new release,
until a decision is made about it.


Thank you very much for your time,


Regards,


Olivier


On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> 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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