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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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pyinotify: execute a command with args

this might be a dup but I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for. Feel free to link any previous answer. I need to write a python script (bash also would be ok) that continuously watches a directory. When the content of this directory changes…
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How to read a text from input file only after it is updated using python

Actually i will give input from my application1 to input.txt, which intern triggers {used pyinotify} program1 to run this program1 which updates output.txt file, but application1 which is reading from output.txt doesn't wait for program1 to complete…
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Unable to use regex with pyinotify

It's possible to use a regex with inotify shell command, but not with pyinotify. I could get the list of directories using the regex and pass it to add_watch, but, the folders "Do*" are dynamic, in the sense that they are created and destroyed very…
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pywatchdog and pyinotify not detecting changes on files inside ftp created directories

I have an application monitoring files sent to a FTP server (proftpd 1.3.5a). I am using pywatchdog to monitor file creation on FTP server root (app running locally), but under some very specific circumstance it does not issue a notification: when I…
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Break pyinotify notifier loop

I'm using pyinotify.notifier to keep track of changes in a text file. When I get an specific change in it, I want to break the notifier loop. By using notifier.stop() seems to not work. Here is what I'm trying to do: class…
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Matching patterns for folder names in a path, excluding a chunk of the path from matching?

Assume an initial (Unix) path [segment] like /var/log. Underneath this path, there might be an entire tree of directories. A user provides a pattern for folder names using Unix shell-style wildcards, e.g. *var*. Folders following the pattern…
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How to monitor the changes remote directories and files?

I am trying to monitor remote directory and files. I need to store or log the changes i.e.(access, write, open and close events) of the files and directories. I tried using pyinotify for monitoring and recording these events. I achieved it for…
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How to know which process is changing a file in linux

I'm using an automation tool to build a virtual machine. During the this automation a config file (/etc/myprogram/cofig.ini) is becoming empty. This file's contents are required complete the automation, but I'm clueless which process is emptying the…
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Interrupt paho mqtt client to reload subscriptions

I have an mqtt client app that subscribes to topics based on a configuration file. Something like: def connectMQTT(): global Connection Connection = Client() Connection.on_message = handleQuery for clientid in clientids.allIDs(): #…
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pyinotify asyncnotifier thread question

I'm confused about how asyncnotifier works. What exactly is threaded in the notifier? Is the just the watcher threaded? Or does each of the callbacks to the handler functions run on its own thread? The documentation says essentially nothing about…
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Catch errors in pyinotify ProcessEvent

I have problems to catch errors inside an event handler from pyinotify. I am trying to do some processing on files that have just been closed after being written to. Here is a simplified version of my script: import pyinotify import asyncore mask =…
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pyinotify: Handling IN_MODIFY triggers

I am trying to watch a directory, and is looking for file modifications. Thinking of using pyinotify. Problem is that while using IN_MODIFY event to check for a file change, it triggers quite a number of events if I am copying even a small file of…
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How to restart a Django development web server in virtual machine on file modification?

I have a VirtualBox machine managed by Vagrant. On this machine I run a Django development web server: ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8080 The codebase is big so for faster code reload I installed pyinotify. Django supports it since 1.7. I'm using…
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Pyinotify doesn't run with pygtk

I'm newbie in python and I'm trying to use pyinotify with a GUI interface using pygtk. I have two classes, my gtk class which doesn't do much, only displays stuff, and a class that handles the monitoring. When I run them separately they do their…
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how to run Apache with mod_wsgi and django in one process only?

I'm running apache with django and mod_wsgi enabled in 2 different processes. I read that the second process is a on-change listener for reloading code on change, but for some reason the ready() function of my AppConfig class is being executed…
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