afick-tk - a graphical interface for afick

- NAME
- DESCRIPTION
- USAGE
- SYNOPSIS
- REQUIRED ARGUMENTS
- OPTIONS
- SCREEN
- - menu buttons
  - - File
    - Action
    - Analysis
    - Configuration
    - Option
    - Archive
    - Help
  - changes section
  - warnings section
  - progress section
- NOTES
- SEE ALSO
- DIAGNOSTICS
- EXIT STATUS
- CONFIGURATION
- DEPENDENCIES
- INCOMPATIBILITIES
- BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
- LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
- AUTHOR

# 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

# SYNOPSIS

afick-tk [options]

afick use posix syntax, which allow many possibilities :

- long (--) options
- short (-) options
- negative (--no) options

# REQUIRED ARGUMENTS

# OPTIONS

You can use any number of the following options :

--config_file|-c configfile

  read the configuration in config file named "configfile".

--full_newdel|-f,(--nofull_newdel)

  (do not) report full information on new and deleted directories.

--help|-h

  Output help information and exit.

--man

  Output full help information and exit.

--ignore_case|-a

  ignore case for file names. Can be helpful on Windows platforms, but is dangerous on Unix ones.

--missing_files|-m,(--nomissing_files)

  (do not) warn about files declared in config files which does not exists.

--dead_symlinks|-s,(--nodead_symlinks)

  (do not) warn about dead symlinks.

--follow_symlinks|-Y,(--nofollow_symlinks)

  if set, do checksum on target link file, else on target link filename.

--allow_overload|-o,(--noallow_overload)

  if set, allow more than one rule on a file (the last wins), else keep the first one, display a warning for others.

--running_files|-r,(--norunning_files)

  (do not) warn about "running" files : modified since program begin.

--timing|-t,(--notiming)

  (do not) Print timing statistics.

--version|-V

  Output version information and exit.

--verbose|-v

  set verbose mode (for debugging purposes).

# SCREEN

the interface is composed from

## menu buttons

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

### File

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

init

  to create the database

update

  compare and update the database

compare

  compare the files with the database

print

  print database content

print config

  print afick's configuration

check config

  check afick's configuration

clean config

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

### Analysis

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

search

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

### Configuration

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

### Option

they are set from afick's configuration file

- timing
- running
- dead symlinks
- follow symlinks
- allow_overload
- report full newdel
- warn on missing files
- ignore case
- debug

### Archive

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

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

# NOTES

this program only use perl and its standard modules.

# SEE ALSO

afick.conf(5) for configuration file syntax

afick(1) for 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

# DIAGNOSTICS

# EXIT STATUS

# CONFIGURATION

# DEPENDENCIES

# INCOMPATIBILITIES

# BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

# 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 gerbier@users.sourceforge.net

afick-tk - a graphical interface for afick