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Your system must have the following installed prior to running filewatcher:

        Mail::Internet (perl module)
        RCS 5.7

Prior to running filewatcher for the first time, several steps must be performed:

• create archive root directory filewatcher maintains an archive of all scanned files as a mirror of the real root below a specific archive root directory. Typically /var/filewatcher/archive, but it can be placed anywhere by modifying the archive-root setting in your configuration file. The archive root directory must be created manually before running filewatcher.
• select state file location

        filewatcher needs to store a state file; the directory containing
        this file must exist prior to running filewatcher.  Typically,
        the state file is stored in /var/filewatcher/state.

• create initial configuration file

See man page for sample configuration file.

        NOTE: if your system's RCS commands are in a location not 
        in your default path, you may wish to add the line:

            option path --append "/usr/local/bin"

        to your configuration.