Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In a message dated 2/1/99 4:38:43 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > > > There's a nifty little program PCMag wrote for Win that tracks > installations, > > > and I'd like to have this functionality in Linux. Before I write my own, > is > > > there a utility that will do the same thing? > > > > > > dpkg does all of this :-) > > > > I did a little more research on this, and dpkg does help in some aspects, > except: > > 1) dpkg won't track anything done by installation scripts after dpkg does it's > configuration. > > 2) dpkg won't track non-deb packages - such as tarballs. > > So, question still stands... any other package that will handle this task?
Look at tripwire, non-free/admin. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
