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
monitors 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
directory 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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