How do i setup a mail alert for changes to a directory in my server? 3

[dikachi]

would someone be so kind as to tell the unix script i need for the following.

i have a srver called myserv and a directory called servy. now i want to be alerted by way of mail whenever a new file is saved or an old filed modified in that directory (i.e. servy directory) - basically be informed of changes to diretory and content. I am new to unix and the shell is tcsh.

thanx

 

[PHV]

man touch
man find (-newer primary)
man sendmail (or mailx)

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[Annihilannic]

To flesh out PHV's clues a little, basically you want to create a cron job that will run a script on a regular basis. See man crontab for details.

That script can then use find to search for files that have been modified since the last time you checked by comparing it to the date of a flag file, which you can create using touch. When it does find such a file, you can email the find output to yourself using mail or mailx (depending on OS), and then update the timestamp on the flag file using touch again.

Have a go and let us know where you get stuck.

Annihilannic.

 

[feherke]

Hi

For a somehow similar problem I looked to the FAM ( File Alteration Monitor ). That looks good, but is an API, but I prefered to write a shell script, not a C program. Anyone knows a command line tool using FAM for scripting purpose ? ( Was some time ago, googling did not helped then. )

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/