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

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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