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Subject: Re: online cheksum verification for FreeBSD
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Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
>  I believe it would be highly desireable to have an online md5sum
> verification for FreeBSD as this is already implemented by checkroot

This is not difficult to do on a per-host basis using integrit, cron and
optionally md5 with mail, ftp or scp.

> (http://www.elstel.com/checkroot/) for openSUSE. This is often the only
> way to spot an intrusion.

Unlike SuSE and Solaris, FreeBSD is most often compiled on the local
host.   Wouldn't that make global checksums relatively useless?

Roger Marquis