debian man page for installwatch

installwatch(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   installwatch(1)

NAME
       installwatch -- Track installation of software

SYNOPSIS
       installwatch [options]  [command]

DESCRIPTION
       installwatch  is a program that is used in order to track the changes made while installing local software (i.e.  "make install"). It moni-
       tors the requested command, and produces a log which indicates all created and modified files. By default it outputs to syslog(3)  using  a
       priority of "LOG_USER | LOG_INFO". This may be overridden by the use of the -o flag. The log format is as follows:

       <return-value> <syscall-name> <argument> #<comment>

       Each field is delimited by a "^I" character if logging to syslog(3), or by a tab when logging to a file.

ENVIRONMENT
       INSTALLWATCH_BACKUP_PATH
		 Set this variable to the location that you want installwatch to copy the original version of files which get modified. The direc-
		 tory will be created if it does not exist, assuming that the parent is writable.

OPTIONS
       These program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is included
       below.

		 -o	   --logfile
		 Directs  that	output from the logged command be written to the filename specified. If the specified file already exists, it will
		 be truncated.

       -r	    --root
		 Sets the directory under which meta-info and translated files	will be stored.

       -t	    --trans
		 Toggle translation capabilities.

       -e	    --exclude
		 Sets a comma separated neutral directory list, that won't be concerned by translation or backups.

       -d	    --dbgfile
		 Specify a debug file.

       -v	--dbglvl
		 Sets the debug level to be used.

       -h	  --help
		 Show help information.

BUGS
       installwatch does not work with programs which are statically linked with libc. Due to LD_PRELOAD limitations, it does not work	with  suid
       programs (this would probably introduce security problems, anyway).

       mknod(2) is not monitored.

AUTHOR
       This  manual  page  was	written by Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Original text by
       Greg Norris <adric@debian.org>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of  the  GNU  General
       Public License, Version 2.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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