[Wolves] A modern AIDE equivalent

Adam Sweet adamsweet at gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 11:27:57 UTC 2024


On 11/10/2024 11:36, Simon Burke via Wolves wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thought the list has been a bit quiet, so I'd pose a work related question.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a modern equivalent to AIDE, or software that can 
> do a reasonable job of monitoring files for changes/updates and 
> notifying. We have fairly heavyweight things we can use, but I'm looking 
> for something that's straightforward to manage.

Sorry to be late replying, just returning to the keyboard after the 
arrival of baby #2.

I'm not familiar with AIDE but presumably you've come across things like 
inotify and fanotify. A quick Google suggests Watchman which uses 
inotify but I'm not sure how you can monitor for changes in files you 
know will change (e.g. .bash_history), but I haven't dug into the docs 
to see what kind of rules you can base watches on.

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