I was cleaning my system last night running sudo rm -rf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-* to clear up some space after failed AUR package install.

I was so frustrated and tired at the situation I was in, that I completely forgot I had my own security auditor, Oversight, running in the background. It jumped in and blocked the command. That was quite a surprise to see it working.

I have spent so much time crafting the regex rules for system integrity that I managed to catch myself off guard executing a now way back command. It is one thing to test a security tool against dummy files, but having it stop me from nuking my own directory when I was focused on something else felt like a real success.

It is a first time I am sharing this the project.…