Auto Rescan package for Synology users (formerly known as Auto Restart package)

[winxi]

(29-11-2014 14:54)goforit Wrote:  Hi winxi,

with Security check in DSM 5.1 (and the update 2 released today) I get the scan message: file /lib/libinotifytools.so.0 has been changed. Do you provide in your autorestart package this file in another version, or do you modify it? I would prefer to not fail the security scan, so is there any way of providing the wonderful autostart feature and not hampering the library file?

Best greetings
Martin, Hamburg

Hi, the AutoRestart package downloads the latest inotify-tools source code and compiles and installs it using 'make' and 'make install'. The standard installation procedure does among others:
- create the file libinotifytools.so.0.4.1 in /lib
- create the link libinotifytools.so.0 -> libinotifytools.so.0.4.1 in /lib
Thus, the original shared object file /lib/libinotifytools.so.0 is overwritten by the link and this is detected by the Synology Security Advisor.

However, there have been no reports from users that this has caused any problems and I have no plans to alter the standard installation procedure. If you are not comfortable with the original file being replaced, you may want try to find a manual inotify-tools installation procedure which leaves the original /lib/libinotifytools.so.0 untouched before installing the AutoRestart package.