From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 25 01:43:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA29522 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 01:43:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA29514 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 01:43:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 13372 on Mon, 25 Aug 1997 08:37:14 GMT; id IAA13372 efrom: hans@brandinnovators.com; eto: UNKNOWN Received: by truk.brandinnovators.com (8.7.5/BI96070101) for <> id JAA14261; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:37:24 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199708250737.JAA14261@truk.brandinnovators.com> From: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam) Subject: Re: Checking the integrity of system files To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:37:24 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: koshy@india.hp.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Tom Samplonius at "Aug 23, 97 12:36:46 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Tom Samplonius wrote: > On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, A Joseph Koshy wrote: > > -current being what it supposed to be, I find that as time passes my > > system as getting filled up with the carcasses of old and abandoned > > programs. At the minimum this can be a space wasting nuisance, and > > may also leave way for security breaching > mtree can do some of this. See the manpage. Wouldn't `tripwire' by Spafford et.al. be able to do this (modulo copyright restrictions)? IIRC it records permissions and a variety of checksums of files and can moan if they do not match in a later run. Hans -- H. Zuidam E-Mail: hans@brandinnovators.com Brand Innovators B.V. P-Mail: P.O. Box 1377 de Pinckart 54 5602 BJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5674 CC Nuenen Tel. +31 40 2631134, Fax. +31 40 2831138