I'm wanting to know how I can find "every change" that occurs to the system after ins
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I'm wanting to know how I can find "every change" that occurs to the system after ins
I'm wanting to know how I can find "every change" that occurs to the system after installing a program.
In other words, is there a program(s) or commands that I can run before and
after installing software, that will find all the changes to the system and
all the new files that have been installed?
You might also check with your distribution and see if it has "tripwire" available.
Tripwire (the program not the company) is a file monitoring tool that does much more than just check access/modification dates. It can take a cryptographic checksum of the file and check to see if any file is modified, even if the dates on the file don't change.
It will detect silent data corruption as well as unauthorized changes...
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