[osiris-devel] Feature Request - Dated Ignores

[Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold]

Hi all,

During certain scheduled times, files on my system are set to change.. 
Most notably are rebuilds of ssl certs, and lockfiles for running
processes when logs rotate.  I know about these, and I'd like to
automatically ignore them on a regular schedule.  However, if they change
outside of that schedule, I need to know since there may be a problem..

So, I propose adding some sort of ignore system to osiris that would allow
a user to ignore a file during a certain period of time.  Obviously the
system would have to rehash that file and automatically add it to the
db...  I was imagining something like this:

IgnoreFile "filename" "0 0 * * *"

Where the first field is the filename and the second field is a
crontab-like entry of the time to ignore the file...  ie, in the above
example, it would ignore the file at midnight each night...

Thoughts, comments, flames?  :)


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