How To Install systraq on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install systraq on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is systraq
systraq is:
Systraq weekly sends you an email listing the state of your system. Furthermore, if critical files have changed, you’ll get an email within a shorter notice. Systraq consists of few very small shell scripts.
It can help you implementing a not too strict security policy. For more demanding systems, you’d better use something like tripwire or tiger. Make sure you really want to do the monitoring this script offers: it might not comply with your site’s privacy policy. Getting informed when users’ config file change might be too intrusive.
Other similar tools are available in Debian (`diffmon’ for instance), but systraq is less intrusive because it can warn for file changes without mailing a complete diff (which is not desirable for e.g. /etc/shadow).
There are three methods to install systraq on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install systraq Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install systraq using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install systraq
Install systraq Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install systraq using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install systraq
Install systraq Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install systraq using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install systraq
How To Uninstall systraq on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the systraq package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove systraq
Uninstall systraq And Its Dependencies
To uninstall systraq and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove systraq
Remove systraq Configurations and Data
To remove systraq configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge systraq
Remove systraq configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove systraq configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge systraq
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install systraq package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
