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Hello I'd like to find some equivalent to the Windows InCtrl utility so that I know exactly what changes were made when I run some software's "make install". Do you ...
  1. 05-11-2009 #1
    littlebigman
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    Question Show changes made by "make install"?

    Hello

    I'd like to find some equivalent to the Windows InCtrl utility so that I know exactly what changes were made when I run some software's "make install".

    Do you know of an easy way to do this? FWIW, to install servers and desktops, I usually use CentOS, Ubuntu, and FreeBSD.

    Thank you.
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    this won't show everything but it will show changes to your /etc directory which is where most things are changes (or at least a lot of things)

    Track changes to /etc (configuration files) with etckeeper
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    You can use this command: 'find / -cmin -5', this will search your entire system and list all of the files changed within the last 5 minutes.
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