David Morton wrote:
As full time mail/systems admins we get invaluable data from
tripwire/integrit, 'postconf -n', dconf, 'rpm -qa', 'dpkg -l \*',
'pkg_info
-a', ... whose output is checked in to RCS daily. This provides a nice
configuration snapshot and historical record but its real usefulness
comes
from rcsdiff piped into a daily report.
That is the coolest idea I've heard today! And it's so obvious, yet
easily missed, I suppose.
Do you have the whole thing scripted and automated?
Yes and no. It is scripted but not packaged. Would probably take a few
hours to complete. Wish I had the time to do it for free.
OTOH, if you have scripting skills it's pretty straightforward. The only
time consuming part is parsing the data down to just the essential elements
and formatting it for easy reading. A few dozen iterations and voila.
Roger Marquis
