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Why inotify-tools has different log format with the same config?

inotify config: /usr/bin/inotifywait -e modify \ -mrq --timefmt %a-%b-%d-%T --format '%w%f %T' \ /var/www/ | while read file; do echo "$file " >>…
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Use inotifywait and lftp to synchronize servers

I have two servers: Server A (CentOS), where people can upload files to (upload root is /files) Server B (Win 2008), with FileZilla FTP Server (FTP root is C:\content) I want that whenever a file is uploaded to Server A, to any subfolder under…
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Is there a good way to combine the incremental behavior of rdiff-backup with the inotify behavior of lsyncd?

I'm trying to backup a directory (my Zotero data, in particular) whenever it changes (a la syncing with drop box); I would also like to keep a history of backups in case I delete something and want to restore it. lsyncd solves the first of these;…
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nohup create multiple process

I am using nohup for the script run inotify command, because inotify stop when I exit from terminal so I want the script to run on background. so I run the script like this nohup /path/to/script.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 & the problem is not nohup create…
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How to check which processes are deleting files without using inotify or auditd?

I'm trying to figure out which processes are deleting files from a specific directory on my CentOS server. I looked at inotify, but all this does is to tell me how many file deletions are occurring; it does not tell me what process run by which user…
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Would this kind of monitoring solution be feasible?

I am wondering if it would be of any help if some kind of tools that does filesystem monitoring (i.e inotify-tools) would be modified in order to monitor/report back through ssh. Would it help sysadmins to be able to do something like inotify-watch…
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how to make pyinotify to run a program on any modification over a file?

I have to watch for any input given to or any changes that made in the present content over a file, upon any modification i need to run a python program which is located in the same folder. I tried my best to understand but i'm not able to get any…
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Can I patch a tiny part of the kernel without recompiling?

I'm using inotify for a project, and desperately require the functionality provided by this patch: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/758183 Can I apply this patch to my existing Linux kernel, or would a recompile be in order?
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Question About inotifywait

Here is an example shell script I'm looking at implementing using inotify: inotifywait -mrq -e close_write -e create -e delete -e move /var/www | while read file; do rsync -av /var/www1/ /var/www2/ done Let's say rsync takes 30 seconds to…
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inotifywait script causes recursive loop

I have an inotifywait script that monitors a ftp upload directory and whenever a new file is uploaded it sets the correct permissions. I do this because the remote client forces wrong file modes and preventing the ftp server to accept chmod commands…
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Alert when a daemon stops writing in log file after some seconds

I need to send an alert if one daemon (linux) stops writing in his log file. This dameon not work properly and it not write any when shutdown. I am using an inotify for watch this problem. I see this: inotifywait -e modify -t 10…
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How to reload httpd service on changes automatically using Supervisord?

I am working in a Docker container that so far have the following ready to go: CentOS 6 (latest, I think is 6.9) Apache 2.2.15 (latest on CentOS6 repositories) PHP 5.3.3 (latest on CentOS6 repositories) Supervisord 3.3.3 I am stolen the idea from…
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Inotify/iwatch cannot see when more files created at the same time

I would need a script that can check files when they are getting uploaded/created on the server. I wrote the script that checks, but I would like to make it run when a create event happens. I tried it with iwatch then with inotify but I experienced…
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prevent proftpd to rename directoy on create

description: I asked a question in stackoverflow (Link to question) about how FTP server works in data channel, I did not get my answer,however I find out that there are several FTP server, My server use proftpd with default config(I think it's…
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inotifywait invalid option -d (daemon)

I'm trying to run inotifywait as daemon by this command: root@server:/# inotifywait -mrd -e delete -e delete_self -e create -e moved_from -e moved_to /path -o /tmp/path.log But I'm getting this error: inotifywait: invalid option -- 'd' What am I…
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