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Re: Bug#276627: ITP: systraq -- monitor your system and warn when system files change



Le Friday 15 October 2004 à 10:47:26, Laurent Fousse a écrit:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name    : systraq
>   Version         : 0.0.20041015
>   Upstream Author : Joost van Baal <joostvb *dash* systraq *at* mdcc *dot* cx>
> * URL             : http://mdcc.cx/software/
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : monitor your system and warn when system files change
> 
>  Systraq daily sends you an email listing the state of your system.
>  Furthermore, if critical files have changed, you'll get an email within a
>  shorter notice. Systraq consists of few very small shell scripts.
>  .
>  It can help you implementing a not too strict security policy.  For more
>  demanding systems, you'd better use something like tripwire. Make sure you
>  really want to do the monitoring this script offers: it might not comply with
>  your site's privacy policy. Getting informed when users' config file change
>  might be too intrusive. 
>  .
>  Other similar tools are available in Debian (`diffmon' for instance), but
>  systraq is less intrusive because it can warn for file changes without mailing
>  a complete diff (which is not desirable for e.g. /etc/shadow).

Can you also document what are the differences between systraq and
checksecurity? checksecurity does _not_ send a diff of the modified
files. This feature (no diff sent) seams to be the major advantage of
systraq over what was provided by *BSD according to [1].

checksecurity was part of cron so any Debian stable user has it. It is
now just recommended by cron.

I do not object to the inclusion of this package but would like to know
what are the benefits compared to an already existing Debian package.

Regards,

[1] http://mdcc.cx/pub/systraq/systraq-latest/doc/manual.html

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau                        Ludovic.Rousseau@free.fr
 -- Normaliser Unix c'est comme pasteuriser le camembert, L.R. --



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