23.3. Radmind
Radmind (Remote Administration Daemon), created by the University of Michigan Research Systems Unix Group (http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/), is a free, open-source system available for most popular computer platforms. Unlike Tripwire, which merely monitors files for changes, Radmind's file integrity monitoring is more of a side effect of its main function, which is to distribute entire system installations to multiple computers, keep them all updated, and enable an administrator to revert them to a predetermined state if necessary. That is, its mission isn't just to report changes but rather to reverse them.
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Another crucial difference between Tripwire and Radmind is that the latter requires both client and server components. Radmind doesn't simply take a snapshot of the way files look at a particular moment and compare it to another snapshot; instead, it asks you to create a special set of files on the server that will function as a base (you can do this ...
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