.Dd March 31, 2006
.Dt FSWATCH 7
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.Sh NAME
.Nm fswatch
.Nd overview of fswatch documentation
.Sh 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.
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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.
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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.
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for more information read
.Xr fswbuild 1 ,
.Xr fswcmp 1 ,
.Xr fswshow 1 ,
.Xr fswatch.conf 5
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see project home page: http://fswatch.sourceforge.net .