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Unix file monitoring system.

  • 13-02-2007 11:42am
    #1
    sicruise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭


    Hi All,

    I need to set up file monitoring on my fc4 servers...

    I installed afick (http://afick.sourceforge.net/) with a cronjob running every 10 mins... but I am looking for live monitoring rather than user initiated checks. Also an application that will e-mail the results would be great...

    Any suggestions?

    Si


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  • #2
    AndrewMc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭AndrewMc


    Hmm - not too sure if this matches what you're looking for, but take a look at inotify (there's a LinuxJournal article on it). It's a relatively new feature in the Linux kernel that reports changes in, or access to, files and directories. I've not used it myself, but there seem to be bindings for both Perl and Python for it, so if you're up for a wee bit of scripting you might be able to make a handy little tool. It probably wouldn't catch changes in files while it's inactive, so you might want to keep afick around, too.


  • #3
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Tripwire?

    http://www.tripwire.com/


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