Re: suspicous file warnings

[Mark Burgess]

Could be a dfs cell or other mounted file system

M

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 14:37 -0500, Adams, Russell L. wrote:
> 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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