Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 12:36:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: A Joseph Koshy <koshy@india.hp.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Checking the integrity of system files Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970823123635.18436B-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199708230908.CAA05685@palrel1.hp.com>
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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
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