Re: Light weight IDSes and then some

[George P Boutwell <george.boutwell@gmail.com>]

On 7/14/05, DI Peter Burgstaller <peter@ais-salzburg.at> wrote:
> > 1) What are some projects/software for light IDS, specifically file
> > checksome/change control.  I plan on doing the MD5 checksum floppy as
> > described in the Secuirng How-To, but then I want an software that
> > does that and e-mails my admin user whenever checksums and permissions
> > change.
> 
> I'm using AIDE and am very happy with it.

The Security Debian How-To mentions Tripwire.  Looking at AIDE and
Tripwire in the debian packages repositories it's hard to tell the
difference.  I'm sure they both do the job, anyone with experience
with both these packages can describe some of the pros and cons of
each?

-- 
George