GNUWire is a centrally managed, multi threaded, host integrity auditor for Unix style (GNU/Linux, Solaris, *BSD etc) systems and Windows. The project should be considered in late-stage alpha development for the following reasons:
Recent changes
The core of GNUWire's code base has been in development for almost five years and used in a production environment for the last two years, however the build process has recently been converted from a home grown system into GNU autoconf/automake. In addition -leditline was also recently replaced with -lreadline and support for -lgcrypt was added in addition to support for -lcrypto. It is more likely than not unexpected bugs have been introduced.
Zero documentation
Simply put there is no documentation. This is a known issue and documentation is in progress.
No rc scripts or user account configuration guides.
In addition to recent bugs and no documentation, there are no startup scripts for the various daemons and no scripts to add the various user accounts that are required by said daemons.
If you feel brave after reading all of this you can check the code out of subversion with the following command:
svn co https://gnuwire.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gnuwire/GNUWire GNUWire
You should see a listing of the source files as they are checking out. After the checkout process is complete do the following:
cd GNUWire
sh autogen.sh
./configure
If you see any errors here you might be missing a required dependency. The error messages should be self explanatory. Assuming the configure process worked you can build and install the code with the following commands:
make
make install