[H-GEN] Lightweight alternative to Tripwire?

Snowy Angelique Maslov snowy at snowy.org
Sun Oct 19 00:32:40 EDT 2014


On 19/10/2014 9:05 AM, Benjamin Fowler wrote:
> For this little problem, I use Tripwire. But there's two problems:
>
> 1) Tripwire is industrial-strength, paranoid security software, and is
> thus massive overkill for what I'm doing.
> 2) I want to check my only data monthly (say, alongside my monthly
> scrub). I'm not sure I want to effectively scrub my disk array nightly
> and excessively wear my cheap WD green drives.
>
> Should I stop complaining, and just use Tripwire, but only for my
> really important stuff, like wedding photos? Are there alternatives?
> Or should I do what a mate of mine did, and write something completely
> bespoke to generate/check MD5sums of my data and run this
> periodically?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers, Ben.
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Have you looked into AIDE - the lightweight open-source alternative to 
Tripwire?   It is relatively easy to configure and you can schedule your 
checks to happen as often as you want:
http://aide.sourceforge.net/

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Snowy Angelique Maslov<snowy at snowy.org>



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