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IPwatchD can be built as a pure daemon (useful for servers without X Window System) or with desktop notification support.
To build IPwatchD from source code you will need gcc, libpcap and libnet1 installed in your system. For desktop notification support you will also need libnotify. On Ubuntu 8.04 it should be sufficient to install following packages with all dependecies: build-essential, libpcap-dev, libnet1-dev and optionally libnotify-dev.
Download IPwatchD 1.1 source from sourceforge project page.
Extract the code:
$ bunzip2 ipwatchd-1.1.tar.bz2
$ tar -xf ipwatchd-1.1.tar
$ cd ipwatchd-1.1/src
Build IPwatchD with the desktop notification support..
$ make
..or as a pure daemon:
$ make daemon
Install IPwatchD as root with command:
# make install
IPwatchD executable is installed into /usr/local/sbin and the configuration file is copied into /usr/local/etc.
Edit configuration file /usr/local/etc/ipwatchd.conf with your favourite editor to suite your needs.
Run IPwatchD as root with command:
# /usr/local/sbin/ipwatchd -c /usr/local/etc/ipwatchd.conf
Killall utility can be used to gracefully stop IPwatchD:
# killall ipwatchd
For more information please read manual page.