Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:37:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam) To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: koshy@india.hp.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Checking the integrity of system files Message-ID: <199708250737.JAA14261@truk.brandinnovators.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970823123635.18436B-100000@misery.sdf.com> from Tom Samplonius at "Aug 23, 97 12:36:46 pm"
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> Tom Samplonius wrote: > On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, A Joseph Koshy wrote: > > -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 > mtree can do some of this. See the manpage. Wouldn't `tripwire' by Spafford et.al. be able to do this (modulo copyright restrictions)? IIRC it records permissions and a variety of checksums of files and can moan if they do not match in a later run. Hans -- H. Zuidam E-Mail: hans@brandinnovators.com Brand Innovators B.V. P-Mail: P.O. Box 1377 de Pinckart 54 5602 BJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5674 CC Nuenen Tel. +31 40 2631134, Fax. +31 40 2831138
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