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💡 Idea for a debugging script 💡 (mastodon.bsd.cafe)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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💡 Idea for a debugging script 💡

This might already exist for FreeBSD, and if so.. let me know!

1. keeps record of OS core/default settings: loader.conf, rc.conf, sysctl.conf, devfs.rules, login.conf etc
1. keeps record of file checksum on those OS core files (similar to the app, tripwire)
1. mode which shows divergence on current state vs known-default state in configs (1) and checksums (2)
  -4) mode which tracks the files and their change-sets over time, similar to a zfs snapshot but at a single file-level

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

@[email protected] I think 1-3 are covered by freebsd-update IDS. 4 would be nice to add.

In my ideal world, we'd separate out the bits in /etc that users touch from the ones that are provided by the system and allow /etc to be a separate ZFS dataset. Unfortunately, the lack of this separation means /etc doesn't get mounted if you try because the scripts that mount all of the non-root ZFS datasets are in /etc.

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