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NAME

       systraq - monitors your system and warns you when files change

SYNOPSIS

       systraq

DESCRIPTION

       systraq is part of the systraq package, a set of scripts that monitors
       your system for file changes. It is meant to be run by a cronjob, not
       directly.

       systraq runs various system commands, to inspect the state of the
       system: what is it doing now?, what has it been doing recently?, are we
       running to hardware limitations?. Furthermore, it runs commands to
       inspect some files in users´ homedirectories, as well as some system
       files, for frequently seen flaws. All these commands are maintained in
       little scripts in /etc/systraq/systraq.d. The first two characters of
       the script´s name are used for the execution-order. The names of
       executable files in systraq.d/ (or symlinks to such files) must consist
       entirely of upper and lower case letters, digits, underscores, and
       hyphens. Files which not adhere will be silently ignored. The systraq
       script supplies some environment variables to the scripts in
       systraq.d/, these might be helpful when adding your own scripts. Refer
       to the (very small) systraq code itself for the details.

       We´ll elaborate on some of the shipped systraq.d/ scripts.

       AA-shellrc checks for unsafe umask setting in shell startup scripts, or
       unsafe PATH in these scripts.

       AA-debsums runs debsums, to check md5sums as stated in packaging files
       with the sums of the actual files running the system. (NB: debsums has
       support for md5 checksums only, most Debian packages ship md5 checksums
       only. Therefore, we can´t use sha256sum. See also the discussion on
        proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages[1] at the
       Debian release mailinglist in August 2007 as well as Debian Bug
       #268658[2] for some considerations on this.)

       AA-localdigest runs sha256sum (or the command set in the ST_SUM
       environment variable) to check message digests as locally maintained in
       a file named in the ST_LDIGESTS environment variable. Typically, this
       is set to /var/lib/systraq/systraq.sums. If this environment variable
       is unset, this check is silenty skipped.

       Of course, you can add your own scripts. If you name them AA-local,
       they´ll never get overwritten by any version of this software. If you
       don´t like one of these scripts, you can disable it by removing the
       symlink, and creating a new symlink with the same name pointing to
       /bin/true.

SEE ALSO

       The systraq Manual, installed in /usr/share/doc/systraq.

VERSION

       $Id: systraq.dbx 374 2008-12-14 08:47:32Z joostvb $

AUTHORS

       Joost van Baal <joostvb-systraq-20041015@mdcc.cx>
           Author.

       Laurent Fousse <laurent@komite.net>
           Author.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2001-2008 Joost van Baal

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
       under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any
       later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       This document is based upon a manual page written by Laurent Fousse for
       the Debian project.

NOTES

        1.  proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages
           http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2007/08/threads.html#00086

        2. Debian Bug #268658
           http://bugs.debian.org/268658

                               17 december 2008