[H-GEN] Lightweight alternative to Tripwire?

[Benjamin Fowler]

Hi all,

> 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?

> 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/

Thanks for the tip! AIDE is looking roughly as heavyweight as
Tripwire, but I'll take a closer look.

I also stopped being lazy, and knocked together a quick shell
script/cron job to write a timestamped list of checksums for a given
set of paths. Hopefully I can find a nice Free (as in beer or speech!)
substitute to BeyondCompare to compare the logs visually, or get away
with diff(1) for the emails.

(Maybe I should stop being cheap and do a new server build? Can't
quite bring myself to do it while more important bills are rolling in
though !)

Cheers, Ben.