Re: suspicous file warnings

[Adams, Russell L.]

I'm curious what a legitimate '...' file is?

Russell

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:15:55PM -0500, Brendan Strejcek wrote:
> Sometimes I get warnings like:
> 
>   a: Suspicous looking file object "..." masquerading as hidden file in /path
>   a: [...] has size 711 and full mode 100744
> 
> I would like to know how to turn this off for particular cases, as some
> of my users have legitimate "..." files. The only relevant "control:"
> setting that is "suspiciousfiles," but that only allows me to add more
> warning-generating file names. Optimally, I would like to be able to
> turn off one particular warning without disabling the "..." warning for
> all recursive file descents, because I think it is a useful feature.
> 
> I tried added the full path to the global "ignore:" directive, but
> that did not suppress the warning. Actually, the documentation for the
> global "ignore:" directive is a little bit unclear to me. The syntax
> specification states that wildcards/directories/filenames are all
> permitted, but it does not specify what it means to use a file name. It
> is clear about directories though.
> 
> (Also, in the warning cfagent generates, the word "suspicious" is
> misspelled.)
> 
> 
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