Whoa. That would be a project indeed. I'm imagining an analogy where I am
the owner of a cinemaplex, and I want to make sure everybody leaves the
theaters between movies. So I rig up a system to detect the movement of
electrical energy through human tissue, pipe that through an algorithm that
separates large-muscle movement from "noise," cross-reference against
skeletal frame sizes and gait distances, and viola! Now I can tell how many
people entered the theater and how many left.

Or I could go into the theater and look, but where would be the fun in that?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 2:53 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [RLUG] Best Way to Detect All Changes After Software
> Install or Removal? 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003, at 13:40 PDT, "Robinson, Eric R." wrote:
> > I thought of tripwire, but I was hoping for a solution that 
> I didn't have to
> > install, configure, and test on every new machine I come 
> across where I
> > might want to do this. The idea is to have an easy way to answer the
> > question, "What did this new rpm, or other kind software 
> installation,
> > actually do to my system?" 
> 
> Hmm.  I can't think of anything off of the top of my head that does
> that, but here is something that you could do.  Run what ever
> application under strace and then go back through the 
> voluminous output
> of that and look for open and write calls.  There would be false
> positives, but a trained eye should be able to weed those out.  A
> wrapper application like strace would be interesting to write.  Useful
> too.
> 
> -- 
> Sam Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                
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