Syscap is a Python script for capturing Linux system state information into tagged files, and subsequently performing a diff between two state tags.
For the time being simply clone the repo down to your home directory and run directly.
./syscap.py -b /root -t configsnap -p pre
./syscap.py -b /root -t configsnap -p post -d preHopefully after making some changes to your system files you should see something similar to the following.
Pull requests are welcome; please also feel free to open an issue to discuss larger changes.