afick-tk - a graphical interface for afick

NAME

afick-tk - a graphical interface for afick (Another File Integrity Checker)


DESCRIPTION

afick-tk is designed to help to use afick for people who prefer graphical interfaces.

Graphical reports such ``tree-view'' may help to have a quick overview.


SYNOPSIS

afick-tk [options]

afick use posix syntax, which allow many possibilities :


OPTIONS

You can use any number of the following options :

--config_file|-c configfile
read the configuration in config file named ``configfile''.
--full_newdel|-f,(--nofull_newdel)
(do not) report full information on new and deleted directories.
--help|-h
Output help information and exit.
--ignore_case|-a
ignore case for file names. Can be helpful on Windows platforms, but is dangerous on Unix ones.
--missing_files|-m,(--nomissing_files)
(do not) warn about files declared in config files which does not exists.
--dead_symlinks|-s,(--nodead_symlinks)
(do not) warn about dead symlinks.
--follow_symlinks|-Y,(--nofollow_symlinks)
if set, do checksum on target link file, else on target link filename.
--allow_overload|-o,(--noallow_overload)
if set, allow more than one rule on a file (the last wins), else keep the first one, display a warning for others.
--running_files|-r,(--norunning_files)
(do not) warn about ``running'' files : modified since program begin.
--timing|-t,(--notiming)
(do not) Print timing statistics.
--version|-V
Output version information and exit.
--verbose|-v
set verbose mode (for debugging purposes).

SCREEN

the interface is composed from

menu buttons

menus are used to control actions, short-keys are associated for a quicker usage

File

save
save output screen to a local file
load
display a saved output in output screen
history
open history file
exit
to quit this interface

Action

init
to create the database
update
compare and update the database
compare
compare the files with the database
print
print database content
print config
print afick's configuration
check config
check afick's configuration
clean config
check and clean afick's configuration (comments bad lines)

Analysis

tree-view
display the change in a tree view
stat_size
display from databases some dangerous files (suid, sgid, group writable, world writable )
stat_secu
display from databases statistics on file size
search
print the content of the database, filtered by a regular expression

Configuration

select
select afick's configuration file (filebrowser)
edit
edit afick's configuration file
secure config
run afickonfig with this options to secure config file
directives
change afick's directives

Option

they are set from afick's configuration file

Archive

this in an interface to afick_archive tool

check
check archive's consistency
search
search for a regular expression in old reports
clean
remove all reports older than the specified period from archive directory

Help

help
the screen description
check_update
check for new releases on internet
wizard
how to use afick
bind keys
summary of all keyboards commands
about
legal informations

changes section

to display the results

warnings section

to display errors and warnings

progress section

useful to follow the disk scan


NOTES

this program only use perl and its standard modules.


SEE ALSO

afick.conf(5) for configuration file syntax

afick(1) for command-line interface

afickonfig(1) for a tool to change afick's configuration file

afick_archive(1) for a tool to manage archive's reports


COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2002 Eric Gerbier All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.


AUTHOR

Eric Gerbier

you can report any bug or suggest to gerbier@users.sourceforge.net

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