Open SeattleForensics opened 2 months ago
Each time you run volatility, it will update a single shared cache on the computer, but each time it will be using a different symbols directory, so each time it will find "new" files and remove old entries that aren't present anymore (so clear out the competing version's files). We could probably change the cache code not to delete entries where the file still exists, I'd need to look into how difficult that would be to do. Otherwise, you can specify the same symbol directory for both, and then you'll only need one set of symbols and they'll both use it. You can also wire that into a config file (vol.json
under %appdata% on windows or ~/.config/volatility3
on linux) that gets picked up on every run, but again, it'll be a single config that provides the same options to both...
I'll leave this open while I work up a potential patch. I need to figure out whether anyone might rely on the old behaviour...
I haven't tested it yet, so I don't know whether os.path.exists
will accept URIs, but the branch I'm working on is issues/issue1255
if you want to give it a try. I'll check it once I'm back from work.
Describe the bug When having and using both the latest release version of Volatility 3 and the latest development version of Volatility 3 on the same system, the "updating caches" function has to re-update frequently.
Context Volatility Version: Volatility 3, v 2.7.0 & the latest development version Operating System: Windows 10 Python Version: 3.11 Suspected Operating System: (not sure what this means... of the memory sample? If so, Windows 10 and Windows 8) Command: C:\Python311\python.exe "C:\Tools\Volatility\3.X\vol.py" -f "C:\Temp\memimage.mem" windows.cachedump.Cachedump
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Expected behavior I expect that each version (3.X release and 3.X DEV) will only need to update it's caches once.
Example output Please copy and paste the text demonstrating the issue, ideally with verbose output turned on (
vol.py -vvv ...
).-The output in the CMD window doesn't keep the cache updating output text in the window when the command has completed running.
Text is preferred to screenshots for searching and to talk about specific parts of the output.
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