rpm-find-changes
rpm-find-changes is a little script I wrote a while ago for rpm-based systems (RedHat, CentOS, Mandriva, etc.). It finds files in a filesystem tree that are not owned by any rpm package (orphans), or are modified from the version distributed with their rpm. In other words, any file that has been introduced or changed from it's distributed version.
It's intended to help identify candidates for backup, or just for tracking interesting changes. I run it nightly on /etc on most of my machines, producing a list of files that I copy off the machine (using another tool, which I'll blog about later) and store in a git repository.
I've also used it for tracking changes to critical configuration trees across multiple machines, to make sure everything is kept in sync, and to be able to track changes over time.
Available on github: https://github.com/gavincarr/rpm-find-changes
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