On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 09:54:30AM -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> I was just thinking. I know there's trip wire and stuff. but it would be
> neat to have cron run a script, that did md5sum "checks" on various things,
> and mailed you, if the sum changed on anything that's in it's list. Anyone
> have anything like that? I know practicly nothing about scripting, but how
> hard would that be to write? Seems like it would go something like this:
>
> For every file in /etc/this_script's.conf, do "$file /path/to/md5sum" >
> /var/log/today's_copy. and diff /var/log/today's_copy against
> /var/log/yesterday's_copy, if today's_copy != yesterday's_copy, mail root
>
> OTH maybe I'm just silly ;-)
This is pretty much what tripwire does, but it checks more than
md5sum. You can config it for any list of files you want. If
everything is OK, there is no output. If run from cron, and there are
discrepancies, then root (or whoever) gets mailed the cron output.
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