md5 tracker

ody · 2003-02-04 09:58:35

OK, Ive began a md5 file tracker, its a basic shell script that runs through "/" by default md5suming every file in its wake and storing them in the db which defaults to /etc/md5.db.

Basic usage:

[root@pc-agr root]# pacsec
Usage: pacsec [-f /path/to/md5.db] [-p /path/to/check/from] [-g|-c]
[root@pc-agr root]#

you can simply run:

pacsec -g

to generate the db, and to use that same db to check the fs do:

pacsec -c

more advanced options are i.e.

pacsec -f /mnt/floppy/md5.db -p /home/ody -g

would generate a md5.db of my home dir and stick it on a floppy for me (aslong as its mounted offcourse)

hrmm thats it for now.. theres more u can do with it that just that, but Ill let you figure it out for now.. please send any suggestions, flames, hugs etc.. my way.

oh u can get the shell script from: http://www.netrux.com/pacsec

peace!

ody · 2003-02-04 10:05:37

hrmm just noticed its having an awful time with spaced filenames i.e. "im a tit that likes to put spaces in file names.txt"

neone know a good way round this? if not no worries Ill be recoding everything in C soon neway(woohoo file descripters).

jk · 2003-02-04 11:49:08

put quotes around the file and path variables

ody · 2003-02-04 11:56:37

Thats wont work.. because:

for file in `find $path -type f`
do

will run though each part of the file name with spaces thinking its a different field to pull back.. is there any way of telling the for loop to just pull lines?

jk · 2003-02-04 12:02:38

ah...heh :-)

find $path -type f | while read file
do
.............
done

ody · 2003-02-04 12:07:13

I get a "command substitution: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file"
"
for file in `find $path -type f | while read file`
do
"

with that

ody · 2003-02-05 11:50:36

even though the bash script seems to work.. it dies not long after running.. so Im starting again on home ground with C and an md5 implementation... means getting my head round threads but I think Ive got that sussed.. ne good socket coders about?

jlvsimoes · 2003-02-10 03:10:50

it realy dies the werd stuff is this
pacsec -g
please wait, generating md5.db...
md5sum: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/flush: Invalid argument

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md5 tracker

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