[NTLUG:Discuss] File system modification tracker

[Ralph Green]

Howdy,
  Yes, you can watch all the files in a directry.  In fact, that is
all you can do.  You have to setup a separate inotify callback for
each directory.
Ralph


On 2/13/13, Christopher Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> On 02/13/2013 12:49 PM, Ralph Green wrote:
>> Leroy,
>>    I think you want to identify the files that are changing.  At least
>> that seems to be the first step.  I think I would just use a small
>> program to hook into inotify and log what files are changed.  A python
>> script to do that should be less than a page.  I can post a simple
>> version of it, if it would help.
>> Ralph
>
> Not sure if you can use inotify to "watch" a set of files in a directory
> tree
> though.  You can watch a "directory" (one level) and you can watch for
> particular files... but since it's inode based, I don't think you can easily
> do
> more (just guessing though).
>
>
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