NAME
websec - Web Secretary
SYNOPSIS
websec [options]
OPTIONS
--help Print a brief help message and exits.
--man Prints the manual page and exits.
--base Base directory for configuration (~/.websec by default)
--urllist
Use another file for the url list, by default it is "url.list".
--Version
Output the program header with the version and exit.
DESCRIPTION
websec is a web page monitoring software. It will send you a changed
web page with the contents highlighted. A new version of a web page
will be fetched based on the timestamp of the archived pages.
The base directory is the place from which websec will read the config
files and in which it will store its data.
When called without an argument, websec will look for a base directory.
If the current directory has url.list it will use it, otherwise it will
try to use $HOME/.websec/. You can also override this process with the
--base option.
You can add a line like AddSubject = [websec] to url.list, websec will
add [websec] to every subject as a first word when mail is sent. You
can then easily detect this line by a mail filter.
The keywords Retry, Retrywait, and Timeout in url.list lets you specify
the number of times to retry, time to wait between retries, and a
timeout setting.
Websec waits for a random number of seconds between retries up to the
value specified by the Randomwait keyword. This is to prevent websec
from being blocked by websites that perform log analysis to find time
similarities between requests.
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/websec/README.gz, url.list(5), ignore.list(5),
webdiff(1).
AUTHOR
Victor Chew is the original author of this software, Baruch Even is
continuing the maintenance and Joop Stakenborg <pa3aba@debian.org>
provided this man page,