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James Wonnacott wrote:
I am trying to determine the best way to monitor changes to a directory on my server. As soon as the diectory contents are updated I want another event to take place. I have a file alteration monitor called fam (not suprisingly) on my mandrake distro but I'm not too sure how to talk to it!!!! (the man file is a bit obscure) Any suggestions please. Thanks in advance James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html
Slight variation on this. I was planning to write up a script that, running daily, would be able to report to me which files had been updated that day, or last 24h to be exact. Basically, this is to monitor a whole set of websites for unwanted changes.
I was planning to use "find" to get the actual files and then I want to be able to filter the report to ignore files that I know it is ok for them to change.
Does anyone know of any script that could do this? It would save me some time. I would rather run a crontab script based solution because of our limited permissions on the webserver and for simplicity.
A sysadmin friend of mine uses runs a control versioning status check daily to restore any files that are not as they are supposed to be. Ideally I would go do this route but I work with designers and arty types who can't handle this sort of control.
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