leadley@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Scott Leadley) (07/21/89)
I am looking for information about tools that check the external characteristics of a filesystem. For lack of a better phrase, the tools I'm looking for are "filesystem description languages". Three examples of this kind of tool are: mkproto(8), rdist(1) and vcheck(Unisoft). What these tools have in common is the ability to check some of the attributes of a file (e.g. name, mode, uid, gid, contents or checksum, etc) to determine if the file's state is "correct". I would appreciate any pointers to published papers about or concrete examples of this kind of tool. Please mail them to me at: leadley@cc.rochester.edu ur-cc!leadley Or, if you are using UUCP, and don't have the mail maps, you can try: ...!rochester!ur-cc!leadley ...!rutgers!rochester!ur-cc!leadley ...!cornell!rochester!ur-cc!leadley ...!ucbvax!rutgers!rochester!ur-cc!leadley Or, you can reply in comp.sources.wanted (were I've directed followups). -- Scott Leadley - leadley@cc.rochester.edu