Re: Real-time alarms

Wes Peters (wessoftweyr.com)
Sat, 18 Sep 1999 20:04:11 -0600

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Brett Glass wrote:
>
> At 11:24 PM 9/17/99 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>
> > Real time alarms if someone even _tries_
> >to modify a schg file is what is missing... someone turning off
> >schg on a file is another thing missing... or accessing the disk
> >through the raw device to reset the bit, etc, etc...
>
> I like this idea a LOT.

This is what we're talking about with the auditing facility. There are
a lot of architectural issues to be solved, starting with "what is an
alarm" and ending with "how do I securely transmit the alarms to those
who need to know about them"?

Fun stuff, eh?

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