After examining Tripwire and deciding that it was *way* overkill for my own purposes... ...L5 simply walks down Unix or DOS filesystems, sort of like "ls -R" or "find" would, generating listings of anything it finds there. It tells you everything it can about a file's status, and adds on an MD5 hash of it. Its output is rather "numeric", but it is a very simple format and is designed to be post-treated by scripts that call L5... ...Unlike Tripwire itself, this is NOT a complete toolkit -- one is expected to use it as a small, reliable part of a larger system... _H* Andrew McNaughton