monitor util in a scripted daemon?
- Is there a command (native, shell, or ports collection) to sit and watch for new file creation in a directory? - I'd like to build a system startup script for such a command and its scripted actions. Sound possible? - Is there already something in the default OS that does something similar? Thanks, -Neil --- Neil Smith ne...@tamu.edu Comp. Sys. Mngr., Atmospheric Sciences ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: monitor util in a scripted daemon?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Smith wrote: - Is there a command (native, shell, or ports collection) to sit and watch for new file creation in a directory? - I'd like to build a system startup script for such a command and its scripted actions. Sound possible? - Is there already something in the default OS that does something similar? Thanks, -Neil --- Neil Smith ne...@tamu.edu Comp. Sys. Mngr., Atmospheric Sciences Hi Neil, I haven't used it yet, but gamin should do the trick: http://www.freshports.org/devel/gamin/ I don't see why you couldn't wrap it with a startup script so a list of monitored files/directories could be added to /etc/rc.conf. Hope that helps, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/ - Follow me, follow you -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFMSf770sRouByUApARAkOAAJwIGJt4trCutsSGCugzGjB93yZx8ACgjdOe o1tEuLiA8wanazn9MlsS3DE= =n83K -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: monitor util in a scripted daemon?
On 23/07/2010 20:58:06, Neil Smith wrote: - Is there a command (native, shell, or ports collection) to sit and watch for new file creation in a directory? gamin -- http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/ - I'd like to build a system startup script for such a command and its scripted actions. Sound possible? It's in ports already. Doesn't appear to have a separate rc script -- it's part of gnome, and would get run along with those applications. - Is there already something in the default OS that does something similar? Look at kevent(2), kqueue(2) -- the EVFILT_VNODE filter can be used to pick up changes to the link count of a directory: ie that a file has been created or destroyed within it. Some C programming required. AFAIK there isn't a ready built application in the base OS to do what you want. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: monitor util in a scripted daemon?
Tripwire? On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Neil Smith ne...@tamu.edu wrote: - Is there a command (native, shell, or ports collection) to sit and watch for new file creation in a directory? - I'd like to build a system startup script for such a command and its scripted actions. Sound possible? - Is there already something in the default OS that does something similar? Thanks, -Neil --- Neil Smith ne...@tamu.edu Comp. Sys. Mngr., Atmospheric Sciences ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
