From: David Filion (david.filionvideotron.ca)
Date: Tue Jan 27 2004 - 15:18:58 CST

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Tobias Weisserth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't like your tone, young man ;-)
>
> Seriously. Acting like this isn't helping anyone.
>
> If you're so dependant on Tripwire then install the 8.2 RPM with the
> force and nodeps flags or try compiling the source from tripwire.org.
>
> And if that doesn't work, then try another file integrity tool. There
> ARE alternatives to Tripwire, you know?
>
> AIDE is a good lead.
>
> In fact, I disagree with you on the MS SuSE comparison. It's totally the
> other way around. If SuSE acted like MS they would have just released
> the 8.2 RPM in the 9.0 branch and leave it that way since "it works".
>
> The fact that SuSE is actually investing time into a good solution is
> very important to me. In the meantime, the security minded admin is
> certainly capable to use something else than Tripwire.
>
> just my 0.02€
>
> Tobias W.
>

Maybe I'm missing something, but why did SUSE even include a broken
product/rpm in to the production release in the first place? If the
tripwire rpm didn't work, shouldn't it have been removed from the
release and only made available once it worked?

Just my $0.02.

David

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