Good afternoon and happy new year, Just to say I have made a small program called «surveille» in a package named «surveillance».
It's a static compiled program, writen in C, that checks the files listed in a liste_file (default is /etc/liste_surveillance) and compares the md5sum with the original one written in a file (default is /var/spool/.surveillance). The program is compiled in static so it is self sufficient. In fact, one can put the program itself, the list of files to check and the file of the md5sum on a read only floppy disk or on a CD and call it using crontab. $ if surveille -f /floppy/liste_of_file -s /floppy/s ; then echo "Evrything is OK"; else echo "Something is wrong"; fi is an exemple of use of this program. The package is at deb http://boisson.homeip.net/[woody|sarge]/ ./ Source is at deb-src http://boisson.homeip.net/source ./ Thanks for any comment and remark Regards François Boisson PS: Please cc answer, I'm not on this list