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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....
  1. 05-07-2008 #1
    master8899
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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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  2. 05-08-2008 #2
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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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