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.

  The structure of the output is as follows:

  filename attribute control:control-val test:test-val

  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. The control-val precedes the test-val. When discrepancies for multiple attributes occur in the same file, each difference is noted on a separate line.

  Following is an example of attribute differences 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 with the -p option to the bart compare command. This output is suitable for programmatic manipulation.

  The structure of the output is as follows:

  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 BART Rules File Attributes.

For more information, see the bart(8) man page.