NewsForge: The Second Commandment of System Administration

“Trust is a hard thing to come by in any workplace. Luckily for
you, trust in your servers isn’t. With the help of file integrity
checkers, you can be absolutely sure of every change made within
the filesystems of your servers.

“II. Thou shalt establish absolute trust in thy
servers

“As their name suggests, file integrity checkers monitor the
state of your filesystem, and report any changes that are made to
files or directories back to you. They can monitor user and group
ownership, last modification date, inode, file size, and a host of
others items…”

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