NAME

       ftpwatch - Notifies you of changes on remote ftp servers

SYNOPSIS

       ftpwatch

DESCRIPTION

       ftpwatch  is a program intended to be run as a cron job. Every user who wants to use it should install it
       into his crontab file. That is add something like:

           47 5    * * 7 /usr/bin/ftpwatch

       The user should then create a .ftpwatchrc file. If one is found the specifed  files  and  directories  in
       that  file  will be dired, and the result is stored as separate files in a .ftpwatch directory i the home
       directory.  diff(1) is invoked to find any changes since last run. If any are found, the output  of  diff
       is mailed to the user.

OPTIONS

       -d<opt> passes the options in <opt> to diff when invoked to generate the change-repport sent to the user.

       -p run ftp in passive mode

CONFIGURATION FILES

       Each  user  can place a .ftpwatchrc file in there home directories, listing the files or directories they
       are intrested in. The format is simpel. Each line of the file is of the following type:

           <Host>:<File>

       Where <Host> is the hostname of the ftp server and <File> is the file  or  directory  to  watch.  If  you
       instead  want to watch an entire directory structure recoursly you can add an R to the config line of the
       dir whoes subdirs you are intresed in, like this:

           <Host>:R:<File>

AUTHOR

       Hakan Ardo <hakan@debian.org>

                                                 7 Januari 1997                                      FTPWATCH(8)