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Pyinotify is a Python module for monitoring filesystems changes.

Pyinotify is a Python module for monitoring filesystems changes. Pyinotify relies on a Linux Kernel feature (merged in kernel 2.6.13) called inotify. inotify is an event-driven notifier, its notifications are exported from kernel space to user space through three system calls. pyinotify binds these system calls and provides an implementation on top of them offering a generic and abstract way to manipulate those functionalities.

Reference: https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify

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Dropbox and pyinotify

I just got an iPad and I foolishly got the TexTouch application. Foolishly, because due to Apple regulation, TexTouch can't compile Tex. It syncs the .tex file to a computer using Dropbox. On the distant computer, it gets caught by another program…
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pyinotify not working when using rsync?

It seems changes are not updated when I change files using rsync. I have this rsync script: DEST1="/home/user/odoo8/addons" DEST2="/home/user/odoo8/addons-bckp" SRC="/home/user/odoo8/source/***/*" for DEST in $DEST1 $DEST2; do rsync -av…
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Pyinotify: Event notifications are SLOW

I am using python 2.7.3 and Pyinotify 0.9.4 releases with ThreadNotifier. I want to make a tailer on log4j logs. My java application is using log4j RollingFileAppender and creating 3 files in milliseconds. I am watching the log directory and taking…
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pyinotify.ThreadedNotifier, process_* not called

I have a problem with pyinotify: the methods process_*() of the ProcessEvent are not called The code import sys, time, syslog from pyinotify import WatchManager, Notifier, ThreadedNotifier, ProcessEvent, EventsCodes from daemon import Daemon class…
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Do I need to update the watch when new sub-folder add in the monitor folder

I have watch a folder that will create a new sub-folder use date as name(e.g 201105124) everyday. I have start a daemon to watch it but if a new sub-folder added, the event in the new sub-folder cannot be trigger. IS that I need to update the watch…
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Monitor access to a symlink with Pyinotify

I'm trying to monitor the access to symlinks, i.e. if a symlink is used to access a file. With Pyinotify I can monitor access to files, but I do not get any events when reading a file through its watched symlink (e.g. head symlink_to_file.txt). To…
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Pyinotify / Watchdog triggers a modify event twice on one edit

I am trying to start a python script everytime is a certain file modified. To be accurate, I have a device on Raspberry Pi's serial ports which writes data into a text file (test.txt) . I have tried both tools - Watchdog / Pyinotify. Everytime the…
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custom linux daemon won't stop using "service stop"

I've written a custom python daemon that runs as a service via an init.d script on ubuntu 14.04. Starting the service works fine, but when I try to do "service monitor stop", the daemon is not terminated. I'm using pyinotify to daemonize a file…
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Recursive pyinotify watch stops sub-directories from being removed

This is a strange one and strace is not giving me any useful information. I am using pyinotify 0.9.6 to watch a directory recursively so I can commit changes about it to a MySQL database. The problem is when I have pyinotify running (daemonized or…
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How to poll a file in /sys

I am stuck reading a file in /sys/ which contains the light intensity in Lux of the ambient light sensor on my Nokia N900 phone. See thread on talk.maemo.org here I tried to use pyinotify to poll the file but this looks some kind of wrong to me…
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Any ways to show file changes (with pyinotify for example)?

Is there any way to print a watched file modification ? let's take an example: I'm monitoring file.txt, Pyinotify can tell me that it has been modified, but It can't seem to be able to output what changes occured ? Am I wrong ? How can I see what…
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How can I reload pserve when a template changes?

I have pserve --reload working with any python changes, but I still have to manually reload when I change a template. I made this little script that monitors my templates folder for any changes, but what is the command to reload pserve? If I need to…
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python pyinotify moved files

I am using this code to detect when files/dirs are created in a folder. It works fine when new files/dirs are created in the specified folder. But it doesn't notify or log files/dirs when they are moved into the folder. How can I detect…
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Python, Ubuntu: Raise an event when Dropbox is done Syncing?

I'm writing a script to move files out of a certain folder in my Dropbox when they are done syncing. For example, I want to have a folder called "TrashBackup" that as soon as I put stuff in there,(after is done syncing) my server picks it up and…
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pyinotify interrupt check_events

I know pyinotify.Notifier.check_events(self, timeout=None) can take a timeout - but I'd prefer it poll indefinitely. Is it possible to interrupt it? I am calling Notifier.stop(self), but it does not seem to be escaping from check_events. In the…
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