And yes there is an inotify tool for Ansible a la
https://github.com/gantsign/ansible-role-inotify

Or you can set an attribute
```
chattr +i myconf.conf
```

or do it via
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/file_module.html

On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 3:18 PM Brian Coca <bc...@redhat.com> wrote:

> For drift control i've found most CM systems to be lacking. I've
> always used something like tripwire/aide to detect file changes and
> correlate that with the proper configuration updates. Puppet and other
> 'resident' systems seemsgood for this but they run every Nminutes
> doing a lot of work to verify things, instead of using something like
> inotify to trigger immediate response from a passive kenrel hook (via
> fam deamon or something as simple as incron). This ends up being a LOT
> more efficient and avoids a lot of useless processing.
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