Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 23:50:01 +0100 From: "Lee" <lee@unassemble.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: File System Monitoring Message-ID: <003701c22476$4bb529e0$6400a8c0@Administrator> References: <002701c2245b$bc1f7fc0$6400a8c0@Administrator> <200207052250.01928.danny@ricin.com>
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Sorry I should have been more clear. Although maybe this defeats the point in using FreeBSD I am not using the Ports collection unless absolutley necessary. Mostly I am installing from source. To put this into perspective, something I am currently doing is testing out various mail servers. At the moment I am trying out Postfix, but in the future I will probably try qmail, exim and even sendmail for a little nostalga (or a headache trying to figure out how the full-formed config files work). The thing is all these programs put files everywhere. Want I want to be able to do is install the program, try it out for a bit and then remove it so I can try something else. Cheers Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Danny Pansters" <danny@ricin.com> To: "Lee" <lee@unassemble.co.uk> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 9:50 PM Subject: Re: File System Monitoring On Friday 05 July 2002 21:39, Lee wrote: > Because I use my FreeBSD 4.6 machine purely for learning rather product use > I am installing a lot of different programs to try them out. What I am > looking for is a program that I can run after each program is installed to > see a the most simple level what files have been added, but I would also > prefer to be able to see what files have been modified. > > I believe this can be done using a combination of find & diff, but does > anyone know of any good programs that provide more advanced options or > simply provide better results. Find can be used for many things including what you want; diff is used to show differences between file.old and file.new. But if you're building/installing from ports or if you are installing from binary packages but also have the ports tree installed, then you can simply look at /usr/ports/*/your_port/pkg_plist which lists exactly which files go where. HTH, -- DaN Want music? http://www.mp3.com/stations/ricin_radio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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