mtree vs tripwire

[Andrew Kenneth Milton]

+-------[ D J Hawkey Jr ]----------------------
| On Jan 14, at 07:09 PM, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:
| > 
| > > This might seem really naive, but can mtree be used effectively as
| > > a native-to-core-OS tripwire equivalent? Would it be as efficient in
| > > terms of time-to-run and resource requirements?
| > 
| > Pro: distributed with base
| > Con: Only available for *BSD architectures as far as my knowledge goes.
| 
| I'm aware of both, yes; hence my question. FreeBSD is all I'm dealing
| with, where my question is concerned.
| 
| Is your reply from personal experience, or is it the same "Hey, it
| could..." as is my question? If the former, would you elaborate on the
| implementation details?

The manpage for mtree has an example...

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