First use yum or apt-get to install the package inotify-tools. The commands are: inotifywait and inotifywatch. There are man pages for both in the package. inotifywait - wait for changes to files using inotify [Also monitors the files, dumping events to a log file]. inotifywatch - gather filesystem access statistics using inotify Web site is http://inotify-tools.sourceforge.net/ If your distro does not have the package (and Centos/RHEL didn't) you can download the source from the web site and build it yourself. --- Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis ----- Original Message ---- From: Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> To: Wayne Johnson <wdtj at yahoo.com> Cc: Leif Johnson <leif.t.johnson at gmail.com>; tclug <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:27:52 PM Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Finding the date of the newest file in a directory tree On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Wayne Johnson wrote: > As a follow up to this, I've found that many distros now have a package > called inotify-tools that brings the inotify API function to the command > line. Nice job Linux community! How does it work for you? What command do you use? Sounds great. Mike ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080115/fb1e1717/attachment.htm