tripwire and log rotations question

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You can specify which files to include/exclude in your tripwire config file.

George


Quoting Scott H <scottlhenderson@yahoo.com>:

> So now that I'm an at-home Linux user that has
> begun to use Linux at my company for servers
> (formerly all was MS), I'm faced with *NIX admin
> issues that are all new to me.  Today's example
> is: I have a RH7.3 server with tripwire installed
> and a cron job that emails a tripwire report to
> me daily.  Works great.  RH7.3 has a log rotation
> system set up by default, and this works well
> too,  rotating the logs once per week.  But of
> course, tripwire notices each week and reports
> that the log files have been changed (I'm
> guessing it's the inode # that changes on these?)
> and puts it in the report.  Now, I want to know
> if a cracker messes with my log files, of course,
> so I DO want tripwire to monitor these files. 
> But I DON'T want tripwire to report on the
> routine, weekly log file rotation, causing me to
> have to go in and do an update on the tripwire
> db.  How do I fix this?
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> .
> 
> 
> 
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