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FSWATCH(7)        DragonFly Miscellaneous Information Manual        FSWATCH(7)

NAME

fswatch - overview of fswatch documentation

INTRODUCTION

fswatch is a utility to guard changes in a file system. fswatch is composed of three programs: fswbuild, fswcmp, fswshow. fswbuild builds file system information database. fswcmp compairs two database files and returns what changes a in file system have been introduced. fswshow shows contents of database file. fswatch can collect the following information about files: inode, links, uid, gid, mode, size, flags, ctime, checksum (sha1) ; and can show which files were added, deleted or changed. fswatch is one of many similar utilities. the main difference is the configuration. you can define different settings for every directory in a directory tree. for more information read fswbuild(1), fswcmp(1), fswshow(1), fswatch.conf(5) see project home page: http://fswatch.sourceforge.net . DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT March 31, 2006 DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT

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