Monday, April 04, 2022

Re: How to track system changes?

Am 04.04.22 08:32 schrieb Eric Thomas:
> I want to have a high degree of confidence in my system's state
> (packages that have been added, configs that have changed, permissions
> changed, etc). I've read about "read only filesystems" and the
> pro's/con's [here](http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/OpenBSD/no_changes.htm).
>
> Aside from that, is there a way to...
>
> 1. ...hash the file system in some way and monitor for changes? OR
> 2. ...somehow review changes that have taken place (a log somewhere)?
>
> The goal is to concretely know whether the state of the system has
> changed, then point to what EXACTLY has changed.
>

Since many years I use rcs(1) for that on hosts I have to admin.
In Openbsd this fine tool is in base...

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