[NTLUG:Discuss] File system modification tracker

Leroy Tennison leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
Thu Feb 14 18:30:18 CST 2013


On 02/13/2013 02:32 PM, Christopher Cox 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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Appreciate the feedback.



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