Medicine for a Sick Linux Box

Squidgee writes "This is the site for "LIAP: Linux In A Pillbox". It is an interesting recovery distro made in the vein of pharmaceuticals; each floppy based 'minidistro' cures one specific Linux ailment. Or, as Luke Komasta (The creator of LIAP) puts it: "My Linux project contains "pills". Each of them is good for one disease, but it doesn't work good enough for another. When you know what you need a Linux for, you may choose a good pill. And of course, as you know, there is no drug which is good for treating all diseases." It's an extremely interesting approach to Linux recovery, and one that appears to be more effective than the other varieties of floppy/mini-cd based recovery systems. Worth downloading in case you ever need it!"

Comments

Re:Would like comparison disk

[lpontiac]

You can implement this yourself easily enough.

Let's say you want to do it for all the files in /root, /bin, /usr/local/bin and /etc. The following will get you a list of md5sums:

#!/bin/sh
find -s /root /bin /etc /usr/local/bin | while read x ; do
md5 $x
done;

Put the output of that into a file after a fresh install. Save it to disk. At any later point, do it again into another file. Use diff to find the differences.

The wonderful thing about Unix is that you can do this sort of thing with the standard shell and 5 lines of script :P