From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 18 21:04:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B52106567D for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:04:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D078FC14 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:04:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.139] (helo=smtp8.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPijh-0008GO-DP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:04:25 +0200 Received: from [84.25.59.18] (helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp8.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OPijg-0004K7-NX for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:04:24 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD0DE39849 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:04:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C1BDF58.8080504@boosten.org> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:04:24 +0200 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100618205629.GA6931@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20100618205629.GA6931@thought.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1OPijg-0004K7-NX X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=0.5, vereist 5, BAYES_50 0.00, CM_META_TB_NOARR 0.50, SPF_PASS -0.00) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: peter@boosten.org X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: utility to all ALL strings? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:04:27 -0000 On 18-6-2010 22:56, Gary Kline wrote: > > this goes back >> a few years, but is there, somewhere in ports, a > utility that goes thru the entire system and collects either all > file names or all strings---i do not think this operated on > binaries [:-)]--- and hashed and compressed everything? > > i remember thinking about it, but because back then my fastest > computer was 500MHz , i thought better =not= to do it. now that > i spend so much time hunting for stuuff, i think i could cron > this utility. --If it wasn't a figment of my imagination! > > gary > My guess would be tripwire (in security), but then again: I haven't got a clue what you're trying to accomplish. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org