Re: Tripwire and cron

[Jack Lloyd <lloyd chimera acm jhu edu>]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Larry Thomas wrote:

Might I recommend AIDE (http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html)? A fully
GPLed replacement. RMS would be pleased!

Here's the script I use to run aide from cron (in /etc/cron.daily/).
Probably this can be changed to run tripwire easily (though I don't know
how).

---- CUT ----
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/aide --check | (cat <<EOF
Output of AIDE:

EOF
cat
) | /bin/mail -s "File integrity report" root
---- CUT ----

I should probably fix this so that no mail is send if aide doesn't print
anything, but I'm basically a very lazy person, so I haven't yet.

This script has worked perfectly for me on several machines over the last
6 months or so.

Good Luck,

Jack

> I am trying to get tripwire 1.2 patch level 2 on Redhat 6.2 to run out
> of cron and so far have failed miserably.
> It runs fine from the command line so I know my configuration is ok, but
> when it runs from cron it gets to Phase 3 and simply exits. It doesn't
> generate any error messages or leave any core files laying around.