Top "Inotify" questions

Best way to monitor file system changes in linux

I'm looking at building a file system sync utility that monitors file system activity, but it appears that some of …

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How to check in python that a file in a folder has changed?

I need to know in python whenever a new file was added/removed/modified in a particular directory Is there …

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How do I program for Linux's new `fanotify` file system monitoring feature?

fanotify, built on top of fsnotify, is supposed to replace inotify which replaced dnotify. Are there some good programming examples …

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inotify file in C

I am trying to run an example of inotify in C..but it's not working. I want to monitor modifications …

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Monitoring file using inotify

I am using inotify to monitor a local file, for example "/root/temp" using inotify_add_watch(fd, "/root/temp", …

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Getting File Create Notifications for CIFS Mount in Linux

I have a windows share mounted via CIFS on an ubuntu server. I need to a way to know when …

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inotifywait - exclude regex pattern formatting

I am trying to use inotifywait to watch all .js files under my ~/js directory; how do I format my …

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Too many open files - Failed to initialize inotify: the user limit on the total number of inotify instances has been reached

How can I fix below problem? I am using compass. Too many open files - Failed to initialize inotify: the …

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inotify - how to find out which user has modified file?

I'm looking for guidance on how to find out which user has modified a particular file. While inotify is great …

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Permanent fix to tail: cannot watch `log/development.log': No space left on device

I've been using Ubuntu 11.10 for a little over a week now. But after some time I encountered this error(the …

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