Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 13:18:47 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Lee <lee@unassemble.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File System Monitoring Message-ID: <20020706121847.GD7912@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <001901c224dc$6726db40$6400a8c0@Administrator> References: <002701c2245b$bc1f7fc0$6400a8c0@Administrator> <20020706104547.GB7912@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <001901c224dc$6726db40$6400a8c0@Administrator>
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On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:00:53PM +0100, Lee wrote:
>
> What I have though about doing is something like this.
>
> ----------------------
> 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
> ----------------------
>
> Is anyone aware of any problems with doing it this way.
>
That will only tell you about the file names that have been added or
deleted. If you want to pick up some more detail, you can use
find(1)'s `-ls' flag:
find /etc /usr /sbin /bin -ls > $HOME/before_install.txt
which will show files that have changed in size, ownership,
permissions, link count, last modification time or inode (ie that have
been deleted and recreated)
Cheers,
Matthew
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