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36 .Nd map a directory hierarchy
59 .Op Fl X Ar exclude-list
64 utility compares the file hierarchy rooted in the current directory against a
65 specification read from the standard input.
66 Messages are written to the standard output for any files whose
67 characteristics do not match the specifications, or which are
68 missing from either the file hierarchy or the specification.
70 The options are as follows:
73 Follow all symbolic links in the file hierarchy.
75 Do not follow symbolic links in the file hierarchy, instead consider
76 the symbolic link itself in any comparisons.
79 Modify the owner, group, permissions, and modification time of existing
80 files to match the specification and create any missing directories or
82 User, group and permissions must all be specified for missing directories
84 Corrected mismatches are not considered errors.
86 Print a specification for the file hierarchy to the standard output.
88 Ignore everything except directory type files.
90 Do not complain about files that are in the file hierarchy, but not in the
93 Indent the output 4 spaces each time a directory level is descended when
94 create a specification with the
97 This does not affect either the /set statements or the comment before each
99 It does however affect the comment before the close of each directory.
101 Do not emit pathname comments when creating a specification.
103 a comment is emitted before each directory and before the close of that
104 directory when using the
109 Do not complain when a
111 directory cannot be created because it already exists.
112 This occurs when the directory is a symbolic link.
114 Remove any files in the file hierarchy that are not described in the
119 except a status of 2 is returned if the file hierarchy did not match
122 Make some errorconditions non-fatal warnings.
124 Do not descend below mount points in the file hierarchy.
126 Read the specification from
128 instead of from the standard input.
130 If this option is specified twice, the two specifications are compared
131 to each other rather than to the file hierarchy.
132 The specifications be sorted like output generated using
134 The output format in this case is somewhat remniscent of
136 having "in first spec only", "in second spec only", and "different"
137 columns, prefixed by zero, one and two TAB characters respectively.
138 Each entry in the "different" column occupies two lines, one from each specification.
140 Add the specified (whitespace or comma separated)
142 to the current set of keywords.
144 Use the ``type'' keyword plus the specified (whitespace or comma separated)
146 instead of the current set of keywords.
148 Use the file hierarchy rooted in
150 instead of the current directory.
152 Display a single checksum to the standard error output that represents all
153 of the files for which the keyword
156 The checksum is seeded with the specified value.
157 .It Fl X Ar exclude-list
158 The specified file contains
160 patterns matching files to be excluded from
161 the specification, one to a line.
162 If the pattern contains a
164 character, it will be matched against entire pathnames (relative to
165 the starting directory); otherwise,
166 it will be matched against basenames only.
167 No comments are allowed in
173 Specifications are mostly composed of ``keywords'', i.e., strings
174 that specify values relating to files.
175 No keywords have default values, and if a keyword has no value set, no
176 checks based on it are performed.
178 Currently supported keywords are as follows:
181 The checksum of the file using the default algorithm specified by
186 The file flags as a symbolic name.
189 for information on these names.
190 If no flags are to be set the string
192 may be used to override the current default.
194 Ignore any file hierarchy below this file.
196 The file group as a numeric value.
198 The file group as a symbolic name.
200 The MD5 message digest of the file.
206 message digest of the file.
212 message digest of the file.
213 .It Cm ripemd160digest
216 message digest of the file.
218 The current file's permissions as a numeric (octal) or symbolic
221 The number of hard links the file is expected to have.
223 Make sure this file or directory exists but otherwise ignore all attributes.
225 The file is optional; do not complain about the file if it is
226 not in the file hierarchy.
228 The file owner as a numeric value.
230 The file owner as a symbolic name.
232 The size, in bytes, of the file.
234 The file the symbolic link is expected to reference.
236 The last modification time of the file.
238 The type of the file; may be set to any one of the following:
240 .Bl -tag -width Cm -compact
244 character special device
258 The default set of keywords are
269 There are four types of lines in a specification.
271 The first type of line sets a global value for a keyword, and consists of
272 the string ``/set'' followed by whitespace, followed by sets of keyword/value
273 pairs, separated by whitespace.
274 Keyword/value pairs consist of a keyword, followed by an equals sign
275 (``=''), followed by a value, without whitespace characters.
276 Once a keyword has been set, its value remains unchanged until either
279 The second type of line unsets keywords and consists of the string
280 ``/unset'', followed by whitespace, followed by one or more keywords,
281 separated by whitespace.
283 The third type of line is a file specification and consists of a file
284 name, followed by whitespace, followed by zero or more whitespace
285 separated keyword/value pairs.
286 The file name may be preceded by whitespace characters.
287 The file name may contain any of the standard file name matching
288 characters (``['', ``]'', ``?'' or ``*''), in which case files
289 in the hierarchy will be associated with the first pattern that
292 Each of the keyword/value pairs consist of a keyword, followed by an
293 equals sign (``=''), followed by the keyword's value, without
294 whitespace characters.
295 These values override, without changing, the global value of the
296 corresponding keyword.
298 All paths are relative.
299 Specifying a directory will cause subsequent files to be searched
300 for in that directory hierarchy.
301 Which brings us to the last type of line in a specification: a line
302 containing only the string
304 causes the current directory
305 path to ascend one level.
307 Empty lines and lines whose first non-whitespace character is a hash
308 mark (``#'') are ignored.
312 utility exits with a status of 0 on success, 1 if any error occurred,
313 and 2 if the file hierarchy did not match the specification.
314 A status of 2 is converted to a status of 0 if the
318 .Bl -tag -width /etc/mtree -compact
320 system specification directory
325 To detect system binaries that have been ``trojan horsed'', it is recommended
330 be run on the file systems, and a copy of the results stored on a different
331 machine, or, at least, in encrypted form.
332 The output file itself should be digested using the
339 should be run against the on-line specifications.
340 While it is possible for the bad guys to change the on-line specifications
341 to conform to their modified binaries, it is believed to be
342 impractical for them to create a modified specification which has
343 the same SHA-256 digest as the original.
349 options can be used in combination to create directory hierarchies
350 for distributions and other such things; the files in
352 were used to create almost all directories in this
358 style BSD.*.dist file, use
365 .Cm uname,gname,mode,nochange.
383 digest capability was added in
385 in response to the widespread use of programs which can spoof
391 digests were added in
393 as new attacks have demonstrated weaknesses in
399 Support for file flags was added in
401 and mostly comes from