Anyone using Tripwire?

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007, James McDonald wrote:
>I have been looking at tripwire
>
>I am finding yes it does keep an eye on filesystem changes. But what I'm 
>finding is that the volume of changes on a Development Distribution such 
>as Fedora 7 are so great how do you sieve through all the information?
>
>Each new version of an application can have literaly hundreds of files.
>
>So the report is garguantuan.

We used tripwire for years, but I never liked it much as it tends to
voluminous reports, and isn't particularly easy to keep updated as software
is updated.

I finally wrote a python program that does what tripwire does
(and uses tripwire configuration files), but the reports are much
shorter, and it's far easier to keep current with changes.

I've also played with aide a bit, but never used it seriously.

Bill
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