Bug#417940: tiger: false positives about directories in a device directory

2007-04-05 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
Package: tiger
Version: 1:3.2.1-35
Severity: normal


Hi,

here is an excerpt of a mail that I received from cron/tiger:

# Checking device permissions...
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/bus resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/cdroms resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/discs resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/disk resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/dri resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/fb resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/floppy resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/i2c resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/loop resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/md resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/misc resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/ptal-printd resides in a device 
directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/scsi resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/snd resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/sound resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/tts resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/vc resides in a device directory. 
--WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/vcc resides in a device directory. 

With udev having directories in /dev/ is now standard.  So could you
please remove this check, or not perform it if udev is installed ?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (100, 'unstable'), (99, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages tiger depends on:
ii  binutils  2.17.20070210cvs-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  coreutils 6.0-1  The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii  diff  2.8.7-0.2  File comparison utilities
ii  libc6 2.5-0exp6  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  net-tools 1.60-17The NET-3 networking toolkit

Versions of packages tiger recommends:
ii  chkrootkit0.47-1.1   Checks for signs of rootkits on th
ii  john  1.7-2  active password cracking tool
ii  ssmtp [mail-transport-agent]  2.61-12extremely simple MTA to get mail o

-- debconf information:
  tiger/remove_mess: true
* tiger/policy_adapt:
* tiger/mail_rcpt: root


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Bug#417940: tiger: false positives about directories in a device directory

2007-04-05 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 05:49:50PM +0200, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
 here is an excerpt of a mail that I received from cron/tiger:
 
 # Checking device permissions...
 --WARN-- [dev003w] The directory /dev/bus resides in a device directory. 
(...)

 With udev having directories in /dev/ is now standard.  So could you
 please remove this check, or not perform it if udev is installed ?

Hmmm... True, I will have to think how to override this (i.e. how to detect
that udev is there). In any case, you should only receive this warning mail
once (as Tiger learns that is your setup, unless udev created new
directories under /dev/ later on.

Regards

Javier


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