new file written 'trigger'

starbecks · n00b Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 45

I have a directory that I need to monitor.

Is there a way to 'fire an event' when a user creates a new file in a specific directory? ... behave like a database trigger, but for files on a drive.

I could probably write a script to 'ls' and compare it to the previous 'ls', and run it periodically. Before I recreate any wheel, I was wondering if there was already something for that.

Thanks in advance

Pythonhead · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 2:39 am Post subject:

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=monitor+changed+files§ion=projects&x=0&y=0

watersb · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 3:18 am Post subject:

I thought that this is what FAM is for (fam_oss, from SGI, part of GNOME)...

# emerge fam-oss

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam

starbecks · n00b Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 45

Thank you for the replies.

Pythonhead, good point... I should search freshmeat and sorceforge before posting. Thanks for the link.

watersb, I found FAM is installed on my home pc. I'll confess I didn't know it was there, probably used in KDE... I'll read up and see if it is something I want to intall on a server. A quick glance shows this may be more than what I need. But, once running, I'm sure I'd find a lot of uses for it. <grin>