AW: Question about the availibility of a capability?

Welwarsky, Matthias (Matthias.Welwarsky@Dresdner-Bank.com)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:35:43 +0200

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Anthony Barbachan [SMTP:barbacha@mail.cis.fordham.edu]
> Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 26. August 1998 08:04
> An: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Betreff: Question about the availibility of a capability?
>
> I'd like to know if there is currently a way to monitor the creation
> and/or
> modification of new or old files. One of the very few annoyances of UNIX
> systems is that programs tend to spred their files throughout various
> directories.
>
Most of the software tends to stick to the FSSTND, though. User
executable binaries goe into /bin, /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, helper
applications into /usr/libexec, variable data into /var or /var/local,
configuration files into /etc and so on. That way a package manager can
easily keep track of the installation of a package.

> Package managers have helped the situation but they are
> useless once one starts to upgrade one's system with updated programs
> compiled from its source.
>
For the systems I manage I just refuse to install packages out of
the control of the package manager. If a program is not available in
packaged form, well, building RPM .spec files is not too difficult ;-) You
have to configure/compile/install the software anyway, keeping track of this
process through RPM is a Good Thing (tm).

> I figure the best way the start to aliviate this
> situation would be to be able to monitor the create of new files,
> installation of files, and the modification of old files.
>
The filesystems (ext2 at least) keeps track of access- and
modification times of all files. "find" is your friend.

Gruss,
Matthias
>

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