Re: tlug: Free? Yes!! I'd love one if there are any left....

["Alan B. Stone" <stoneab@example.com>]

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Jim Schweizer wrote:
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> tlug note from Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>
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> Hi all,
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> On 01-Jun-97 Alan B. Stone wrote:
> >I asked the other day, but didn't get a response...has anyone
> >heard about a program called tripwire?  Does it work?  Is it
> >really necessary?
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> It might be a good idea to install it if you think someone has
> (or may) cracked into your system.
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> Tripwire reads a configuration file of files or directories to
> monitor, and then tracks changes to inode information and
> contents. The database is highly configurable, and allows you to
> specify particluar attributes to monitor and particular message
> digest alogorithms to use for each file.
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> If this makes sense to you:
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> #!/bin/sh
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> find `cat /usr/adm/filelist` -ls -type f -exec md5 {}\; >
> /tmp/now
> diff -b /usr/adm/savelist /tmp/now
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> then you might want to get a copy from
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> ftp://coast.cs.perdue.edu/pub/COAST/Tripwire
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> Sent by: Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>
> On: 01-Jun-97 at: 19:46:08 JST
> http://www1.harenet.or.jp/~schweiz/
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Jim,

Thanks, your email made perfect sense.  I found a copy of tripwire on
Red Hat's ftp server, but didn't want to install it until I had found
out a little more about it.  Thanks.

Blaine
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