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Comments and suggestions concerning this book should be mailed to gmourani@videotron.ca © Copyright 1999-2000 Gerhard Mourani and Open Network Architecture ® 211 running Tripwire in “Interactive Checking Mode” and waiting for the long scan to finish, the script file “tripwire.verify” will scan the system and report via mail the result, then you run Tripwire in “Database Update Mode” and update only single files or directories that has changed. As an example: If a single file has changed, you can: [root@deep /]# tripwire -update /etc/newly.installed.file Or, if an entire set of files or directories has changed, you can: [root@deep /]# tripwire -update /usr/lib/Package_Dir In either case, Tripwire regenerates the database entries for every specified file. A backup of the old database is created in the “./databases” directory. Some possible uses of Tripwire software Tripwire can be used to: 1. Check the integrity of your files system. 2. Get a list of new installed files on your system. Installed files > /etc/cron.daily/tripwire.verify > /etc/tw.config > /usr/man/man5/tw.config.5  > /usr/man/man8/siggen.8  > /usr/man/man8/tripwire.8  > /usr/sbin/tripwire > /usr/sbin/siggen > /var/spool/tripwire > /var/spool/tripwire/tw.db_TEST Alternatives to Tripwire ViperDB ViperDB Homepage: http://www.resentment.org/projects/viperdb/ FCHECK FCHECK Homepage: http://sites.netscape.net/fcheck/fcheck.html Sentinel Sentinel Homepage: http://zurk.netpedia.net/zfile.html