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Find differences between two daily Lynis audits

It can be useful to see the differences between scans of Lynis, especially when running it daily. Learn how to do this with just a few steps

Summary

Lately I saw a great feature request for Lynis, to detect differences between two runs of Lynis. Wouldn’t it be great to run Lynis daily and then see if anything changes and act upon those differences? While our auditing tool doesn’t have such an option itself, it is very easy to implement something and fine-tune it to your needs. Report Lynis has two important files to which is logs data: