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FILETRAQ(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       FILETRAQ(8)

NAME

       filetraq - keep track of changes in config files.

SYNOPSIS

       filetraq --help
       filetraq [filelist] [backupdir]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents briefly the filetraq command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       FileTraq is a shell script that reads a list of files to watch, runs diff against each file and its backup, and reports any  discrepancies,
       along with keeping a dated backup of the original.

       It's designed to be run as a cron job.

OPTIONS

       This command has two possible invocations, one with one option:

       --help Show summary of options and the default values of the config file and the backup directory.

       and other with no options, a config file or a config file and the backupdir.

       The  debian  version has been modified to read the /etc/default/filetraq configuration file, that lets the administrator change the default
       values of the config file ( file ), the backup directory ( backupdir ), the diff options used to print the filetraq  output  (  diffopts  ,
       e.g.  -p -C 1 or -u ) and the diff order ( difforder , either newold (FileTraq default) or oldnew (traditional Unix default)).

SECURITY

       FileTraq  is  not  well	tested	or hardened.  It runs as root, but all of its config files should only be accessible by root.  No security
       holes are known at this time, but please be careful.

BUGS

       Right now, it doesn't take care of its backups very well.  The dated backups will accumulate in the  backups  directory,  bounded  only	by
       diskspace.

       It only handles text files, it isn't a Tripwire replacement for use with system binaries.

FILES

       /etc/filetraq.conf
       /etc/default/filetraq
       /var/lib/filetraq

SEE ALSO

       diff(1), cron(8).

AUTHOR

       Jeremy Weatherford <xidus@xidus.net>
       Homepage: http://filetraq.xidus.net/

       This manual page was written by Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								     June 2001							       FILETRAQ(8)

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NET-COMPILE(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    NET-COMPILE(8)

NAME

       netscript-compile - netscript ipfilter-defs compile back end.

SYNOPSIS

       netcript-compile [ -fhq ] [ -b max-backup-level ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the netscript-compile command from the netscript router/firewall network configuration package.

       This  command is the back end to the netscript compile command documented in netscript(8) manpage.  See ipfilter-defs(5) for the details on
       the definitions files in /etc/netscript/ipfilter-defs.

       By default it checks to see if the relevant files in the /etc/netscript/ipfilter-defs directory have been updated by comparing their  modi-
       fication  times to that of /etc/netscript/ipfilter-defs.conf, and if updating is needed, it recompiles and re-creates the file.	Up to max-
       backup-levels of history are kept of previously compiled /etc/netscript/ipfilter-defs.conf files, with a  numeric  extention  in  order	of
       increasing age.

OPTIONS

       -b max-backup-level
	      Sets  the  maximum  level  of  backups  kept  of	previously  compiled files.  This defaults to 2 (see /etc/netscript/netscript-com-
	      pile.conf), and it is also used by the netscript(8) compile command.

       -f     Force compile even though compile file is up to date with definitions.  The testing depends on the modification times of the defini-
	      tion file inodes in the file system.

       -h
	      Show a summary of options.

       -q     Quiet compile.  This option suppresses informational progress messages.

FILES

       /etc/netscript/ipfilter-defs.conf,
       /etc/netscript/ipfilter-defs-compiled.conf,
       /etc/netscript/ipfilter-defs directory.

SEE ALSO

       ipfilter-defs(5), netscript(8).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

BUGS

       I wrote this manpage when I was not half asleep...

								  March 25, 2003						    NET-COMPILE(8)
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