Ciao,
From man instmon:
" In monitoring mode, instmon has three different methods for detecting changes on the filesystem. These are the following: Find method. This is the only method that existed in instmon 1.x. This method records the time, runs the installation program, and then searches the filesystem with find(1), in order to detect all the files that their status changed after the recorded time. Trace method. When this method is selected, the installa tion program is monitored with strace(1), so all the filesystem-related system calls it makes are trapped and logged. This is much better than the find method, because it detects changes the moment they happen. Watch method. This method uses the installwatch program, written by Pancrazio `Ezio' de Mauro. It is a program which overrides all the system calls that alter the filesystem and provides logging. This is probably the best method, as installwatch is a highly specialized program written specifically for this kind of tasks." Maurizio Il ven, 25 feb 2000, Stefan Troeger ha scritto:
Hi,
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 10:08 +0100, Maurizio Firmani wrote:
Actually there is a new version of instmon (2.0, URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/admin/instmon-2.0.tar.gz) which use the installwatch program written by a friend of mine Pancrazio 'Ezio' De Mauro. This latter program can be downloaded at http://datanord.datanord.it/~pdemauro/installwatch/installwatch-0.5.5.tar.gz
Ah, thanks for the pointer. Do you know if there's any important new feature that makes it worth upgrading?
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