man fam Although the only times I tried to use fam before, I found it somewhat... unrobust, that was in 1997. It's EXACTLY what you are looking for.
(fam=File Alteration Monitor) > -----Original Message----- > From: Douglas, Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: program to monitor directory changes (new files) and send > e-mail > > > Ah, important safety tip as that will be the case. > > Since I'm not comfortable implementing technology I don't > fully understand, would you be so kind as to translate into > English each line of your script? I think I get the basic > drift of it..."take a snapshot of the contents of a > directory, take another and compare the two, if their > different send an e-mail, if their not, start all over again" > or something like that. Getting warm? > > Thanks a million! > > Stuart > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony E. Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: program to monitor directory changes (new files) and send > e-mail > > > On 13-Mar-2003/09:33 -0500, "Anthony E. Greene" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >What about a cronjob that does this: > > > >olddirsum=`cat olddirsum` > >newdirsum=`ls --full-time /ftpdir | md5sum` > >if [ "$newdirsum" != "$olddirsum" ]; then > > ls /dir | mail -s 'Updated FTP Directory' [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > echo "$newdirsum" > olddirsum > >fi > > This may nopt be a good idea to run every minute if the FTP server may > receive uploads that take more than 1 minute to complete. You > might get a > notification every minute until the upload is complete. > > Tony > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
