[svlug] help with dnotify and the filename that was added
John Conover
conover at rahul.net
Thu Dec 13 22:34:58 PST 2007
Daevid Vincent writes:
> Thanks for the suggestion, and no offence, but this seems to be even worse, unless I'm doing this wrong?
>
> myserver dwatch # ls
> Makefile dwatch dwatch.1 dwatch.c dwatch.catman logwatch logwatch.1 logwatch.c logwatch.catman
> myserver dwatch # ./dwatch
> File(s) modified in .
> File(s) modified in .
>
Oh, its a template. The program is only 12 active lines of C, so add
what you want it to do when something in the directory changes.
The logwatch program, (which notifies when a file changes, like a log
file is appended to,) is an example of how to do it.
John
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