BART Reporting

In default mode, the bart compare command, as shown in the following example, will check all the files installed on the system, with the exception of modified directory timestamps (dirmtime):

CHECK all
IGNORE	dirmtime

If you supply a rules file, then the global directives of CHECK all and IGNORE dirmtime, in that order, are automatically prepended to the rules file.

BART Output

The following exit values are returned:

0

Success

1

Nonfatal error when processing files, such as permission problems

>1

Fatal error, such as an invalid command-line option

The reporting mechanism provides two types of output: verbose and programmatic:

• Verbose output is the default output and is localized and presented on multiple lines. Verbose output is internationalized and is human-readable. When the bart compare command compares two system manifests, a list of file differences is generated.

  For example:

  filename attribute control:xxxx test:yyyy

  filename

  Name of the file that differs between the control manifest and the test manifest.

  attribute

  Name of the file attribute that differs between the manifests that are compared. xxxx is the attribute value from the control manifest, and yyyy is the attribute value from the test manifest. When discrepancies for multiple attributes occur in the same file, each difference is noted on a separate line.

  Following is an example of the default output for the bart compare command. The attribute differences are for the /etc/passwd file. The output indicates that the size, mtime, and contents attributes have changed.

  /etc/passwd: size control:74 test:81 mtime control:3c165879 test:3c165979 contents control:daca28ae0de97afd7a6b91fde8d57afa test:84b2b32c4165887355317207b48a6ec7

• Programmatic output is generated if you use the -p option when you run the bart compare command. This output is generated in a form that is suitable for programmatic manipulation. Programmatic output can be easily parsed by other programs and is designed to be used as input for other tools.

  For example:

  filename attribute control-val test-val [attribute control-val test-val]*

  filename

  Same as the filename attribute in the default format

  attribute control-val test-val

  A description of the file attributes that differ between the control and test manifests for each file

For a list of attributes that are supported by the bart command, see Rules File Attributes.

For more information about BART, see the bart(1M) man page.