Comparing linux boxes for differences?

Thu Jun 28 08:42:21 PDT 2007

You said "quick" and "audit" in the same sentence.  I'm not sure  
that's legal.  ;-)

How many servers are you trying to compare?  How open is your  
network?  Can you easily install client software without having to  
manually go to each system?

Heather Flanagan
Director, UNIX Systems & Applications
heatherf at stanford.edu

On Jun 28, 2007, at 7:49 AM, David Smith wrote:

> We need to come up with a quick way to audit that our servers are  
> consistent across our infrastructure.  I figure I could hack out a  
> quick script do so some md5sums across various key files, software  
> installed, etc, but I would rather not re-event the wheel.
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> I thought there might be some sort of product out there that might  
> accomplish this without too much effort.  I’d rather avoid a large/ 
> costly tripwire for server/tripwire manager implementation.  All  
> our systems are very light weight/minimal installs and are built  
> automatically.
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