From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 20 11:59:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from forkbomb.martini.nu (forkbomb.martini.nu [204.118.247.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E91937B410 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:59:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reich@forkbomb.martini.nu) Received: (qmail 49366 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Aug 2001 18:58:53 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:58:52 -0700 From: Mahlon Smith To: Frank Sonnemans Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommendation Tripwire and alternatives Message-ID: <20010820115852.A13292@internetcds.com> References: <20010819152021.3AF4C49AC8@zoe.sbs-online.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010819152021.3AF4C49AC8@zoe.sbs-online.com>; from "fs.mail@wanadoo.be" on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 05:24:16PM Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The only advantage I can think of to using the freeware version of Tripwire is incremental updates of your filesystem databases, vs having to recreate the whole thing after allowed modifications. That is probably a good thing on an old box. Otherwise, an mtree -c / -f combo works dandy, especially when the snapshots are stored on a remote box and compared over ssh. -- Mahlon Smith System Administrator InternetCDS http://www.internetcds.com On Sun, Aug 19, 2001, Frank Sonnemans wrote: > > I found several utilities in the ports collection which can detect changes > to files. Which one works best on a low end (486) system? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message