[osiris] Re: Osiris not resetting base database

[Jeff Simmons]

This seems to have worked, at least in tests on one OpenBSD computer. I've set 
up a run with the OBSD server querying ten different computers on different 
OSs on a daily basis and plan to let it run over the weekend. If anything 
goes wrong I'll let you know.

Thanks for the patch.

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 09:39, David Vasil wrote:
> Jeff Simmons wrote:
> > Hello, list.
> >
> > I've set up Osiris 4.2.2 on an OpenBSD 3.9 box, and it's working except
> > for the fact that it doesn't reset the base database after a change, so
> > any change is reported for all subsequent scans, even though auto accept
> > is set to yes. Any way I can change this?
> >
> > ## Both new files are reported via email, but the base database still
> > hasn't changed.
> >
> > It's going to be a real pain to use Osiris if I have to manually reset
> > the base database for 40 or so computers every day ...    :-(
>
> Everything in the way which you configured Osiris looks good.  I had
> personally never ran the OsirisMD on a BSD based system so I took some
> time and did some playing around with OpenBSD and Osiris.
>
> After a while of debugging I found the scan context was being cleaned up
> too early which caused the autoaccept to always fail on OpenBSD (this
> *should* affect other systems as well, but apparently OpenBSD cleans up
> freed memory more securely than other OSs).
>
> I have updated the subversion trunk with the code fix and will attach a
> patch you can test with.  I have done very minimal testing, but it
> appears autoaccepting the baseline database.  Please let me know whether
> or not it fixes your problem.

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