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Re: Verifying file data integrity using L6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James R Grinter)
Sun Dec 20 15:23:54 1998
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:30:05 +0000
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From: James R Grinter <jrg@BLODWEN.DEMON.CO.UK>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: Ng Pheng Siong's message of Sat, 19 Dec 1998 01:00:07 +0800
Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@POST1.COM> writes:
> I've toyed with putting a wrapper around l5 to make it work like tripwire,
> but that means handling all the integrity database maintenance that tripwire
> does. In essence, reinventing tripwire. ;-|
This seems to be something that a good backup/archive system[1] ought
to be recording whilst it backs up files, so that one could simply run
a check of all files on a system against those in the database.
(For bonus marks, it could ring alarm bells when a file's checksum has
changed whilst the timestamps remain the same. Or allow custom rules
and queries to be implemented to monitor what has changed.)
James.
[1. Unfortunately. I've not met many good backup/archive systems.]
