.\" Copyright (C) 1997 Hakan Ardo .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License .TH FTPWATCH 8 "7 Januari 1997" .SH NAME ftpwatch \- Notifies you of changes on remote ftp servers .SH SYNOPSIS ftpwatch .SH DESCRIPTION .I ftpwatch is a program intended to be run as a cron job. Every user who wants to use it should install it into his crontab file. That is add something like: .PP 47 5 * * 7 /usr/bin/ftpwatch .PP The user should then create a .ftpwatchrc file. If one is found the specifed files and directories in that file will be dired, and the result is stored as separate files in a .ftpwatch directory i the home directory. .IR diff (1) is invoked to find any changes since last run. If any are found, the output of diff is mailed to the user. .SH OPTIONS -d passes the options in to diff when invoked to generate the change-repport sent to the user. .PP -p run ftp in passive mode .SH CONFIGURATION FILES Each user can place a .ftpwatchrc file in there home directories, listing the files or directories they are intrested in. The format is simpel. Each line of the file is of the following type: .PP : .PP Where is the hostname of the ftp server and is the file or directory to watch. If you instead want to watch an entire directory structure recoursly you can add an R to the config line of the dir whoes subdirs you are intresed in, like this: .PP :R: .PP .SH AUTHOR .nf Hakan Ardo