[... I'm planning to ...]
- use aide to check the system files regularly. The way I'm thinking
of doing this is to put a bootable debian image (with aide installed)
on a flash disk, then every week or so boot my laptop from this with
the slug's usb hard drive plugged into the laptop as well, and check
the system using aide that way. Then install any updates, then
calculate the checksums again and store them on the flash disk (which
I would never use for any other purpose). This is putting me off
somewhat, as I was doing something similar with another server I had a
while back, and it was a fair bit of hassle to keep it up every week.
So it would be good to know if this is overkill, or a sensible thing
to do?