README for ferret.sh A simple script to determine whether someone has been tampering with your hosted service. Copyright (c) 2012, Chris Sparnicht Laughter On Water http://low.li/contact All rights reserved. This code is licensed under this BSD license: The license text can be found at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * Neither the name of the Organization 'Laughter On Water' nor the names of its contributors(Chris Sparnicht or others) may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ( INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. Attributions: Some of this code has been taken from Dreamhost's wiki page: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Detecting_intrusions The tools have been collapsed together for use here. Myqlarson added most of the content on this wikipage and has asked for specific attribution. Method Author: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Special:Contributions/Myqlarson Instructions: Move this script into your home directory, perhaps where you have other shell scripts that you have either created or downloaded, perhaps '~/admin/scripts'. Create an alias in your .bash_profile alias ferret="~/admin/scripts/ferret.sh" Manually add the alias in shell for your current session and give it a try: $ ferret -h Good luck! Please let me know if you found this script useful on the web page for ferret. http://low.li/story/2012/04/ferret