FSWATCH(7) BSD Miscellaneous Information Manual FSWATCH(7)NAMEfswatch — overview of fswatch documentation
INTRODUCTIONfswatch is a utility to guard changes in a file system. fswatch is com‐
posed 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 con‐
figuration. 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 .
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