On 30/9/14 14:00, Hartmut Meyer wrote:

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 30. September 2014, 13:57:24 schrieb Otto Rodusek:

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Some time ago (10-15 years ago?) there used to be a Linux application that made a complete database of an installed system (basically it stored all the "system" files with their original file sizes, ownership, access permissions and md5sums plus other info in the db) and had programs to periodically check this database against an installed system and report on any changes and optionally to restore them to their original states.

I forgot the name of the package and can't seem to find it via google! Does anyone on this list remember this package and if so to let me know where to find it. Are you talking about the output of "rpm -Va"?

Greetings from Bremen hartmut

Hi Hartmut, Thanks for your reply. rpm -Va will verify against installed packages only. If one had installed other packages by other means then no way to test. The application I'm trying to remember took a "snapshot" of all the files (ie: in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /etc/...etc) with all the details as per my above info and created a db with all this info. Then you ran a program that verified your current system against the "master" db and highlighted any changes and optionally to restore files to their original condition. There is a program (md5deep) that does some of what I want but is basically a manual process - I was hoping to find the original application and use it instead to save me a bunch of time writing scripts. Thanks for your reply tho and best regards. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org