check freshmeat, today or yesterday, something was posted that does just
that.

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote:

> I was just thinking. I know there's trip wire and stuff. but it would be 
> neat to have cron run a script, that did md5sum "checks" on various things, 
> and mailed you, if the sum changed on anything that's in it's list. Anyone 
> have anything like that? I know practicly nothing about scripting, but how 
> hard would that be to write?  Seems like it would go something like this:
> 
> For every file in /etc/this_script's.conf, do "$file /path/to/md5sum" > 
> /var/log/today's_copy. and diff /var/log/today's_copy against 
> /var/log/yesterday's_copy, if today's_copy != yesterday's_copy, mail root
> 
> OTH maybe I'm just silly ;-)
> 
>                  JW



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