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Idea #11817: Ubuntu Intergrity Scanner

Written by Skyhawk the 4 Aug 08 at 10:41. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
As a newbie unix script monkey, when I get a problem I usually google it then follow the intruction from the results that I get to fix my problem. This gets problematic as I don't know what config file I changed most of the time and don't keep record of the change.

As a result my OS probably has random tweaks and changes that I've done but later forgot.

A program that check of all the settings of graphic, drivers and libraries and all the file that are user configurable would be great to make sure I haven't screwed anything up.

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Written by Skyhawk the 4 Aug 08 at 10:41.
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droetker wrote on the 4 Aug 08 at 11:34
I think it's a good idea, having a program/script that on demand checks all the installed .debs, all the files in there and the versions of it, and compares them to the "reality" in the file system. If some files don't match (eventually except the modified ones in /etc?), they could be listed.
Should not be that problematic.

natureflow wrote on the 4 Aug 08 at 11:58
The program "debsums" does help you, but it doesn't repair your system automatically.

morgan.germain wrote on the 5 Aug 08 at 08:10
This great idea could allow making reports usefull for bug tracking.

If i'm an expert, i can know where to find the reasons of a bug, but if i'm a newbie and i see a problem, i don't know where to find. If i'm a newbie, i should post a gzipped report on launchpad to help bug tracking.

zoubidoo wrote on the 5 Aug 08 at 16:36

To re-install a broken package:
apt-get --reinstall install my_broken_package

To find broken packages follow step 4 of here:
http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/recovery.html

notyetroot wrote on the 14 Aug 08 at 11:43
This would probably be only good for security mainly. Some kind of improved apt snapshot/repair system would be better for recovery.


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