RFC (Remote Filesystem Checker) is a set of scripts that aims to help system administrators run a filesystem checker (like tripwire, aide, etc.) from a "master-node" to several "slave-nodes" using ssh, scp, sudo, and few other common shell commands.
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A new function that replaces the "seq" command, which is not available on all systems. A fix for a small bug that caused a "cp: missing destination file" error. A fix for an error that caused RFC to suggest a bad "sudo" setup. A new function to check whether a node is alive without the "nmap" requirement. "/lib" is included in all default configuration files for the filesystem checkers (afick, aide, and integrit). AFICK has been updated to version 2.8-2. The documentation reflects the latest changes.
In this release, afick has been updated to version 2.3-1, there is an explicit requirement for "wc". Most importantly, you can finally choose an arbitrary port for SSH/SCP connections, and this port can be different for each host that RFC will check.
AFICK is updated to version 2.1-0, but the most important thing is that this release has a better email report that will only show hosts where differences are found. This way, the report will be very short even for people running RFC on many hosts.
The program now really honours $PROC (which
specifies the number of parallel process to run) on
fast systems. A string checking problem was
corrected. Processes can now be killed if they take
too long to run.
This release may not run in interactive mode. It can perform a mass check/update for all nodes, set up some options from the command line, and send an alert to a different email address. It does not require an "rfc" user to run on master/slaves, so anyone but root can run it, and you can chose a different user on each remote node. It can check a single node, does not use multiple SSH connections to remove files, and clears files on the remote host. The documentation has been updated and some small bugs have been fixed.
