Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 12:00:53 +0100 From: "Lee" <lee@unassemble.co.uk> To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: File System Monitoring Message-ID: <001901c224dc$6726db40$6400a8c0@Administrator> References: <002701c2245b$bc1f7fc0$6400a8c0@Administrator> <20020706104547.GB7912@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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Hi,
Cheers Matthew for that advise.
What I have though about doing is something like this.
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find /etc /usr /sbin /bin > $HOME/before_install.txt
./configure
make
make test
make install
find /etc /usr /sbin /bin > $HOME/after_install.txt
diff $HOME/before_install.txt $HOME/after_install.txt | less
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Is anyone aware of any problems with doing it this way.
Thanks
Lee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To: "Lee" <lee@unassemble.co.uk>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: File System Monitoring
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 08:39:50PM +0100, Lee wrote:
>
> > If anyone has read my previous posts, you can probably tell that I
> > am new to the whole FreeBSD / UNIX thing. So sorry if my questions
> > are a little simple.
>
> Few are born with an instinctual knowledge of Unix. Fear not: we've
> all been there, and even if we can make it seem easy now, we remember
> when it was new and difficult.
>
> > 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.
>
> Hmmm... if you're using ports/packages then
>
> pkg_info -L pkgname
>
> will show you all of the files installed by that package.
>
> pkg_info -g pkgname
>
> will show you all the files belonging to that package that don't match
> what was originally installed. There are some vital files that are
> deliberately left out of some packages, for instance, the www/apache2
> package doesn't include /usr/local/etc/apache2/httpd.conf --- the
> principal configuration file for the apache daemon. Most daemon
> processes installed from ports have sample startup scripts installed
> in ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d, but in such a way that they have to be
> deliberately renamed in order to enable the process to automatically
> start on reboot.
>
> > 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(1) can do a lot for you: eg. to find all of the files modified in
> the last 24 hours under /usr/local:
>
> find /usr/local -mtime -1 -print
>
> but diff(1) has the unfortunate requirement that you keep unmodified
> copies of the files around for something to compare against.
>
> Perhaps it's not exactly what you were talking about above, but cvs(1)
> is designed, in essence, to track modifications to files over time.
> The cvsweb.cgi application (ports: devel/cvsweb) gives you a nice
> graphical interface with side-by-side comparisons of the difference
> between versions of a file.
>
> Look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ for the canonical
> example. cvsweb.cgi was invented by Bill Fenner as a tool to access
> the FreeBSD CVS Repository over the web. Since then it's been adopted
> by many open source projects.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
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