On 27 Oct 2008, at 15:56, Jeremiah Heller wrote: > On 17 Oct 2008, at 09:41, Sean Carolan wrote: > >> We have several dozen production Linux servers and I would like to >> have better control over what files are changed, by whom, when they >> were changed, etc. Because these are all production servers that are >> in use 24x7, we do not have the luxury of simply doing a clean build, >> taking md5sums of each file, and then doing fresh installations. I >> need a system that can take in-place snapshots of each server's >> configuration files, store them in some kind of database or text >> file, >> and notify me whenever something changes. >> >> I've used tripwire in the past - do you have any other >> recommendations >> for this type of project? > you might want to look at dconf, from http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dconf/ > . probably not hard to script something to notify you when a new > snapshot is taken. [snip]... > > You can configure dconf to run from cron on an hourly, daily, weekly > or monthly basis and, in case of changes, have it send out a mail. probably easier to read what I posted and see email notification is a configurable option :P > Dconf allows you to go back in time, compare older snapshots, > rollback changes or even compare systems with basic text-oriented > tools. > ===== Jeremiah