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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: A Joseph Koshy <koshy@india.hp.com>
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Subject: Re: Checking the integrity of system files
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On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, A Joseph Koshy wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> -current being what it supposed to be, I find that as time passes my
> system as getting filled up with the carcasses of old and abandoned 
> programs.  At the minimum this can be a space wasting nuisance, and 
> may also leave way for security breaching 
> 
> Is there any way, barring parsing the output of `make install' to 
> or `make release' to determine the list of `current' files on a system?  
> 
> I'm looking at a registry of files maintaining sizes, permissions, checksums
> of files, against which I can check a system.
> 
> If such a registry is to be added, what is a good place to add it?
> 
> (a) add the functionality to `install' (but this won't handle ports stuff)
> (b) a separate program callable at install or release time or port addition
>     time.
> 
> Koshy
> 
> 

  mtree can do some of this.  See the manpage.

Tom