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Old 05-07-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Monitor changes to a file?
hi,

I was wondering if there was a program or something that monitored files so that after I install something I know what files were changed.
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You could always just look at the files time stamp to see what has been modified, if you want something more tech take a look at tripwire SourceForge.net: Open Source Tripwire
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If you want to compare files in a directory you could check timestamps as mentioned, or run a daemon to check file details...maybe based on ls -l or similar.

If you wanted to check details of a specific file for changes you can use the tail -f command.
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