[KLUG Members] RE: System Restore & Compare State

[Robert V. Kanaley]

>> 3.Find what software was installed between a specified period of time.
>
>This is a job for the package management system,  using something like
>Red Carpet will provide you a nice history feature.  I don't know if
>Yast stores this information.


I use logwatch to monitor system state and activity over various intervals
http://www2.logwatch.org:81/. Logwatch presumes the changes you want to
track have been legitimately applied to a reasonably configured system. That
is, logwatch presumes you know how to setup logging and that you want
logwatch to automatically generate reports for you. If this is not the case,
then you are more interested in an IDS system like Tripwire.

Regards,

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk at agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com