Linux - File Integrity Monitoring

On Linux we validate the integrity of the following directories and their files:

• /etc
• /usr/bin
• /usr/sbin
• /bin
• /sbin
• /boot
• /etc/ssl/private.key

Except for files in the following directories:

• /etc/mtab
• /etc/hosts.deny
• /etc/mail/statistics
• /etc/random-seed
• /etc/random.seed
• /etc/adjtime
•  /etc/httpd/logs
•  /etc/utmpx
•  /etc/wtmpx
•  /etc/cups/certs
•  /etc/dumpdates
•  /etc/svc/volatile