James Alton <jamesalton...@gmail.com> writes: > What is the reason for checking file hashes once a month? Are you just > trying to do a basic sys admin task like ensuring system file integrity? No > sense in reinventing the wheel. Look into tripwire. > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8758
The purpose is to generate monthly reports from information in these files. In the first month, all the files have changed of course; in the following months, some of them may change, some not. Some may be considered as closed and won't need to be considered for reports anymore after being reported as closed. If they change, they need to be considered for the reports. At any given time, there will not be so many files involved that I need to worry about performance. And I take this as a good occassion to learn some more perl. -- "Object-oriented programming languages aren't completely convinced that you should be allowed to do anything with functions." http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
