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Looking for VCS to watch /etc (without extra files)

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mabra
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Looking for VCS to watch /etc (without extra files)

#1 Post by mabra »

Hi All !

Probably someone knows a VCS, client-server preferred, which can use a directory as its source
and which does not use/create any extra files in this directory.

I want to track all changes of all files inside of "/etc" on a hosted VPS, probaly in some other directories too.
For a client-server construction, it must be able to determine and save a differernce even in absence of the server.

I was looking around, but this was not to find for me. Found some example,
where always etxra files were created inside the watched directory.

If someone knows such a beast, please let me know!

Thanks anyway,
Manfred

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Re: Looking for VCS to watch /etc (without extra files)

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Re: Looking for VCS to watch /etc (without extra files)

#3 Post by pcalvert »

It's not a VCS, but perhaps a program like this one will allow you to accomplish most (maybe all) of what you would like to do:

https://packages.debian.org/stable/fcheck

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#5 Post by pcalvert »

Here are two more interesting programs that can watch for changes:

https://packages.debian.org/stable/filetraq
https://packages.debian.org/stable/systraq

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