This is a little script I wrote and use to get a daily report of all the files that have changed on my servers. What it does is list all the files that are modified within a certain time period from a given directory. It can also be run from a desktop machine, or any machine which runs bash, find and ls. Usage is simple, save the script, chmod +x it, then run (./report.sh). If you want a specific directory to be scanned run it like ./report.sh /var/www/my/dir

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This is the script:

#!/bin/bash

Copyright (c) 2012 Remy van Elst

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#Change these values to your need #Exclude hidden directories, 0=exclude,1=include HIDDEN=0 #Time parameter in days for modified files MTIME="-1" #Directory to look for files, if unset use current dir FILEDIR=$1 if [ -z "$FILEDIR" ]; then FILEDIR="./"; fi SVERSION="0.2" HOSTPC=hostname HOSTUSER=whoami

#Now do the find thing

case "$HIDDEN" in

0) echo "Reporting all files modified in last "$MTIME" period in directory "$FILEDIR" for system "$HOSTPC", running as user "$HOSTUSER" excluding hidden files."
echo "Date: `date`"
echo "START OF FILE REPORT"
find $FILEDIR -type f -mtime $MTIME ! -path "*/.*" | xargs -r ls -lh 2>/dev/null
echo "END OF FILE REPORT"
echo "Report script version $SVERSION by raymii.org"
;;

1) echo "Reporting all files modified in last "$MTIME" period in directory "$FILEDIR" for system "$HOSTPC", running as user "$HOSTUSER"."
echo "Date: `date`"
echo "START OF FILE REPORT"
find $FILEDIR -type f -mtime $MTIME | xargs -r ls -lh 2>/dev/null
echo "END OF FILE REPORT"
echo "Report script version $SVERSION by raymii.org"
;;

esac #END OF SCRIPT Sample output looks like this:

remy@USN4 ~/test $ ./report.sh ~ Reporting all files modified in last "-1" period in directory "/home/remy" for system "USN4" excluding hidden files. Date: Fri Mar 30 13:20:59 CEST 2012 START OF FILE REPORT -rw-rw-r-- 1 remy remy 6 2012-03-30 12:54 /home/remy/hoi.test -rw-rw-r-- 1 remy remy 0 2012-03-30 12:55 /home/remy/test/hallo -rw-rw-r-- 1 remy remy 0 2012-03-30 12:55 /home/remy/test/i -rw-rw-r-- 1 remy remy 0 2012-03-30 13:15 /home/remy/test/me.f -rwxrwxr-x 1 remy remy 1.2K 2012-03-30 13:20 /home/remy/test/report.sh END OF FILE REPORT Report script version 0.2 by raymii.org If you want to filter out certain directories you can add grep to the find line in the script to filter out directories:

find $FILEDIR -type f -mtime $MTIME ! -path "/." | grep -v "/sys/" | grep -v "/proc/" | grep -v "/run/" | grep -v "/dev/" | xargs -r ls -lh 2>/dev/null The above command wil filter out the /sys/ /proc/ /run/ and /dev/ directories. Edit it to your needs. I've got a crontab like this, it saves it to the /var/log/freport/ directory so you can check it later or email it:

00 */8 * * * /root/report.sh / > /var/log/freport/filereportdate +%F.txt