One of the features of rkhunter in CentOS that I miss is the ability to update rkhunter‘s property database automatically after yum is run (just like in Debian). This post explains how to implement this feature.
How to Integrate rkhunter with yum
How to Integrate monit with yum
Monit is an utility for managing and monitoring processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a Unix system. It is often used to restart daemons on failures and abnormal situation, and sometimes to detect changes into critical files and / or daemon binaries. This article explains how to make yum package manager play nice with monit.