Re: Distributed audit daemon committed (was: svn commit: r243752 - in head: etc etc/defaults etc/mail etc/mtree etc/rc.d share/man/man4 usr.sbin usr.sbin/auditdistd (fwd))

On 12/01/12 22:53, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 1 Dec 2012 21:51, "Andreas Tobler" <andreast-list_at_fgznet.ch> wrote:
>>
>> On 01.12.12 16:15, Robert Watson wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all:
>>>
>>> I've now committed the build glue required to install the recently
> merged
>>> Audit Distribution Daemon (auditdistd) contributed by the Pawel
> Dawidek, and
>>> sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation.  This allows individual hosts
> generating
>>> audit trails to submit trails to a central audit server for review and
> safe
>>> keeping.  Part of the goal is to ensure that a host submitting trail
> data
>>> can't later modify the trails.  Pawel uses a variety of useful
> security- and
>>> resilience-related features such as TLS, Capsicum, etc, in auditdistd.
>  As the
>>> recent security incident in the FreeBSD.org cluster illustrated, having
>>> reliable and detailed audit trails makes a big difference in forensic
> work,
>>> and hopefully this will allow the FreeBSD Project (and our users) to do
> that
>>> better in the future.
>>
>> Aehm, hope it is ok to 'complain' here.
>>
>> Happens when installing world.
>>
>> cd /export/devel/fbsd/head/src;
>> /usr/obj/export/devel/fbsd/head/src/make.amd64/make -f Makefile.inc1
>> LOCAL_MTREE= hierarchy
>> cd /export/devel/fbsd/head/src/etc;
>> /usr/obj/export/devel/fbsd/head/src/make.amd64/make distrib-dirs
>> mtree -eU  -f /export/devel/fbsd/head/src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p /
>> mtree -eU  -f /export/devel/fbsd/head/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var
>> mtree: line 22: unknown user auditdistd
>> *** [distrib-dirs] Error code 1
> 
> Does mergemaster -p help?
> 
> Chris

I had the very same problem and complained about it on current_at_.
"mergemaster -p" definitely helped for me and I was given the advise to
use mergemaster -p prior to every make installworld.

Oliver