Re: Linux File Integrity Checker

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:00 AM,  <charlie () funkymunkey com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for a good, reliable file integrity checker for linux. So I
> want it to build a database of md5 sums of each file on the machine
> (excluding a few directories) and each hour or so check these checksums
> against the current files and if any have changed to send an alert email. It
> would also be good if it would check the monitored directories for new files
> and send an alert email if any new files had been created.
>
> Is there a good piece of software to do this on linux or will I have to
> write it myself?
Tripwire.

By the way, MD5 is broken and should not be used (except in certain
instances, such as interop'ing with TLS 1.0 and 1.1).

Jeff

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