[NTLUG:Discuss] File system modification tracker

[Leroy Tennison]

On 02/13/2013 03:18 PM, Ralph Green wrote:
> 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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Thanks for the feedback.  Since I don't know what I'm looking for 
(except that it probably is somewhere below .kde4) the inotify option 
(which I barely knew about before this) looks like it might get unwieldy.