manpage of afick-tk

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.

USAGE

click on afick icon or type the afick-tk.pl command, and the graphical interface will appear

SYNOPSIS

afick-tk [options]

afick use posix syntax, which allow many possibilities :

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS

afick-tk does not need any options to run

OPTIONS

You can use any number of the following options :

--config_file|-c configfile

read the configuration in config file named "configfile".

--help|-h

Output help information and exit.

--man

Output full help information and exit.

--version|-V

Output version information and exit.

--verbose|-v

set verbose mode (for debugging purposes).

SCREEN

the interface is composed from

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

File menu

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 menu

init

to create the database

update

compare and update the database

compare

compare the files with the database

print

print database content

print afick's configuration

check config

check afick's configuration

clean config

check and clean afick's configuration (comments bad lines)

Analysis menu

tree-view

display the change in a tree view

stat_size

display from databases some dangerous files (suid, sgid, group writable, world writable )

stat_ext

display a list of file extension, sorted by numbers (for windows)

stat_secu

display from databases statistics on file size

= duplicates

display files with same contents

print the content of the database, filtered by a regular expression

Configuration menu

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

learn

learn from previous afick run (logs) to remove false positives

Archive menu

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 menu

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

DEPENDENCIES

this program use perl and its standard modules. the perl-tk module is used for the gui.

SEE ALSO

afick.conf(5) for the configuration file syntax


afick-tk(1) for the graphical interface


afick(1) for the 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


afick_learn(1) for a learning tool

DIAGNOSTICS

the verbose command line option can help to provide diagnostics

EXIT STATUS

not meaningful

CONFIGURATION

same as for afick(1)

for config file syntax see afick.conf(5)

INCOMPATIBILITIES

none known

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

afick works on files, it is not a Version Control System, and it does not show changes in registry for windows users

LICENSE AND 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 eric.gerbier@tutanota.com

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