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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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Python Persist Log File Stream with PyInotify

I am experiencing an issue persisting a log file write stream through pyinotify and it's threads. I am using pyinotify to monitor a directory for CLOSE_WRITE file events. Before I initialize pyinotify I create a log stream using the built-in…
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Python service - writing filename with timestamp

I wrote a Python script that will run indefinitely. It monitors a directory using PyInotify and uses the Multiprocessing module to run any new files created in those directories through an external script. That all works great. The problem I am…
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How to append stdout to file for pyinotify daemonize?

I am trying to add watches using python pyinotify and daemonize the notifier. notifier = pyinotify.Notifier(wm, handler) notifier.loop(daemonize=True, pid_file='/tmp/pyinotifier.pid', stdout='/tmp/out.log',…
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pyinotify for watching new file creation in a folder

I am watching a folder being_watched using the pyinotify module in python. But the files are being created faster than they can be processed by the Event Handler of the pyinotify. Is there a way around this problem, where all the new files created…
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pyinotify can only monitor changes twice, why?

I am using Celery with pyinotify to monitor changes of modules, but the function of Celery does not work. I want to figure out why. So I test the pyinotify module and the question appear. I follow the tutorial of pyinotify and write some…
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pyinotify file deletion user

I'm trying to use pyinotify to alert me whenever files are deleted, but I want to know what user deleted the files. Is there a way to find this information?
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Python Search irc log file for last line with phrase COMPLETE:

I'm currently using pyinotify to monitor an irssi (irc client for linux command line) log file, and this log file is written to by irssi using the IN_MODIFY mask from pyinotify, it reads the file just fine, and is told every time when its changed,…
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python pyinotify doesn't work with os.listdir() or glob.glob()

I am trying to make a simple piece of software that automatically makes a list based on the file contents of any newly inserted USB memory stick. using ubuntu 14.04. now using os.listdir() and glob.glob() work fine on their own... however when…
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pyInotify performance

I have a very large directory tree I am wanting pyInotify to watch. Is it better to have pyInotify watch the entire tree or is it better to have a number of watches reporting changes to specific files ? Thanks
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Starting script using pyinotify as daemon process

I have a number of questions regarding starting a script using pyinotify as a daemon. I have some code like this: #!/usr/bin/env python import sys import pyinotify import shutil import glob PACKAGES_DIR = '/var/my-packages' PACKAGES_TEMP_DIR =…
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pyinotify can not watch current dir

I put a script using pyinotify under my home dir (/home/name) and run it. While I can not make the script watch my home dir (/home/name) or dirs that contain my home dir, like root (/) and /home/. All other dirs are OK, like /var, /boot,…
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Slow pyinotify.ThreadedNotifier.stop()

I have a wxPython application that uses pyinotify (via ThreadedNotifier) to check when a certain file gets modified. When this happens, the application stops watching the file and does some stuff. Everything works fine, except that often the call to…
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Python inotify (pyinotify) over FTP

I need to listen file events for my remote server over FTP. I've found pyinotify to detect file changes in Python. It detects well on local file system and I think it is very good. But when I gave a FTP addres to make it watch, it does not see the…
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python pyinotify to monitor the specified suffix files in a dir

I want to monitor a dir , and the dir has sub dirs and in subdir there are somes files with .md. (maybe there are some other files, such as *.swp...) I only want to monitor the .md files, I have read the doc, and there is only a ExcludeFilter, and…
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Using pyinotify to 'live' refresh displayed file

G'day, I've got a Raspberry Pi, which will be used to display a transaction log CSV file on an HDMI-connected display. I would like the display to operate as a live 'scoreboard', such that all the user can see is the log CSV file (like an…
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