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monitor your filesystem events with inotify-tools

I looking for the way to mirror files on my server to others when something're updated and found that inotify is a good idea in this case.
Thanks for inotify-tools project, c library and set of command line programs for linux provide interface to inotify, that let me avoid from c code.

On ibex, i get it by..
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ sudo aptitude install inotify-tools
[sudo] password for pnix: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  inotify-tools libinotifytools0{a} 
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 39.0kB of archives. After unpacking 201kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
...
Writing extended state information... Done

pnix@pnix-a7n:~$

Below is example shell script i use to moniter and update file to remote host.
#!/bin/bash
while inotifywait -rq -e close_write /folder_to_moniter; do
        rsync -av /folder_to_moniter -e "ssh -l pnix" pnix@remotehost:/home/pnix/tmp
done

for Java api look here
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Anonymous said…
Thanks. This is really good information. It works!
January 8, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Anonymous said…
Wow, you really seem to know your stuff.
8-)
January 16, 2009 at 7:18 AM
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October 21, 2009 at 1:49 PM
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