Re: file exclusion pattern for checksum

[Mark Burgess]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 15:44 -0700, Mark Foster wrote:
> I'm getting these messages from cfexecd...
> 
> cfengine:lu326: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> cfengine:lu326: SECURITY ALERT: Checksum for /etc/mtab changed!
> cfengine:lu326: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> 
> This is the relevant section from cfagent.conf
> files:
>   any::
>     /etc checksum=md5 inform=on recurse=inf xdev=false exclude=/etc/mtab
> 
> So the exclude "pattern" does not work. What kind of regex would 
> properly represent /etc/mtab, and how would I combine other file paths 
> to make a compound regex to exclude other paths as well (e.g. 
> /etc/ntp/drift comes to mind).
> 
> Thanks.
> 

exclude=mtab is correct