[PLUG] dnotify detects directory changes

Dan Young dan_young at parkrose.k12.or.us
Wed Mar 2 22:33:40 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 05:49 -0700, Dan Young wrote:
> Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > "dnotify" is a program that detects changes to directories (like file
> > changes or deletes) and executes a script.\
> 
> Some distributions (Fedora and Ubuntu, that I know of) are incorporating 
> Gamin, related to FAM, which monitors files and directories:
> http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/index.html
> 
> Also, Novell's Robert Love has been working on inotify, a replacement 
> for dnotify:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/README
> 
> The differences between all of these are lost on me, I'm just providing 
> relevant linkage.

Sorry about the goofy time. Laptop's battery is shot, so the clock is
wildly off at boot. Darned if I don't forget to fix it most of the time.

-- 
Dan Young <dan_young at parkrose.k12.or.us>
Parkrose School District




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