> Should it really be this difficult to get something like tripwire to work properly? Gentoo 
> needs a custom tripwire-ish program that can take advantage of portage's MD5SUM's and 
> mtime's on all installed files. A scanner could even be added to portage as a FEATURE. 
> While a program like this wouldn't catch intrusions involving non-portage-installed data 
> files, it would catch any replaced/modified binaries/scripts. Although, there would need 
> to be a configuration option to disable warnings on files in /etc since those are usually 
> modified after they are installed by portage. Or even better, there could be an option to 
> the program that would scan for changes in /etc and update portage's MD5SUM of the files.

What's the difference between tripwire's file signature's, and portage's
md5sum's and mtime's?

Tom


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