On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 22:13, Roger Marquis <marq...@roble.com> wrote: > David Morton wrote: >>> >>> As full time mail/systems admins we get invaluable data from >>> tripwire/integrit, 'postconf -n', dconf, 'rpm -qa', 'dpkg -l \*', >>> 'pkg_info >>> -a', ... whose output is checked in to RCS daily. This provides a nice >>> configuration snapshot and historical record but its real usefulness >>> comes >>> from rcsdiff piped into a daily report. >> >> That is the coolest idea I've heard today! And it's so obvious, yet >> easily missed, I suppose. >> >> Do you have the whole thing scripted and automated? > > Yes and no. It is scripted but not packaged. Would probably take a few > hours to complete. Wish I had the time to do it for free. > > OTOH, if you have scripting skills it's pretty straightforward. The only > time consuming part is parsing the data down to just the essential elements > and formatting it for easy reading. A few dozen iterations and voila.
this is a pretty compelling idea! Could you open a feature request on the SA bugzilla about this? it should be quite easy to dump all lines read, given a command line option. Patches to do it would be most likely to make it happen, btw ;) --j.
