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From Issue #146
June 2006

Apr 28, 2006  By Marco Fioretti
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All about Tripwire and what it can do for you.
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Worked perfect

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 00:27.

Article seems old (2006), It worked exactly as it described. Great article. I am using tripwire now without any problem. Thanks a lot Mr. author.

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Tripwire Missing tw.cfg

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 11:05.

I have followed you instructions but get:

tripwire --check
### Error: File could not be opened.
### Filename: /etc/tripwire/tw.cfg
### No such file or directory
### Configuration file could not be read.
### Exiting..

Can you please help

Try running the command as

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 15:24.

Try running the command as superuser, such as "sudo tripwire --check".

Typo?

Tri Trinh's picture
Submitted by Tri Trinh (not verified) on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 10:57.

Great Article! :)

tripwire --init --cfgfile twcfg.enc --polfile tw.pol
↪--site-keyfile my_home_key --local-keyfile my_local_key

should be...

tripwire --init --cfgfile twcfg.enc --polfile twpol.enc
↪--site-keyfile my_home_key --local-keyfile my_local_key

tw.pol missing.

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/19/2007 - 19:33.

Under Database Creation:

You have the commnad argument:
--polfile tw.pol

I got the error:
### Error: File could not be found.
### tw.pol
### Exiting...

I checked the directory it was never created. At what step does it get created in this process?

nice tutorial. my tripwire

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/20/2006 - 23:59.

nice tutorial. my tripwire rpm also did not have the /etc/tripwire/twinstall.sh script. i used tripwire-2.3.1-21

'tripwire --check ' was not good enough

### Error: File could not be opened.
### Filename: /etc/tripwire/tw.cfg
### No such file or directory
### Configuration file could not be read.
### Exiting...

i needed to explicitly list it as an arg to tripwire

Stuck on the encrypting steps...

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Submitted by Perry Huang (not verified) on Wed, 07/26/2006 - 13:28.

I'm using Tripwire 2.4.0.1 on RHEL 4 and I am having problems at the encryption step. I don't have the twcfg.enc file needed to encrypt the config and policy files. Any ideas?

Read those steps again. You

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 07/27/2006 - 18:50.

Read those steps again. You don't have it initially. You create twcfg.enc.

twinstall.sh

Robert's picture
Submitted by Robert (not verified) on Tue, 07/25/2006 - 21:42.

If you look through the docs it mentions twinstall.sh has been replaced by tripwire-setup-keyfiles.

It should also be noted that the prelinker will affect the md5 sums etc when it runs.

Rob

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