Anyone know a good tool to use for tracking file changes?

[TheLinuxBug]

I have been looking for a easy tool to use in the Unix/Linux environment which tracks changes to files it is set to monitor and will alert me upon the changes happening.  Someone I know mentioned a python utility called FAM (http://python-fam.sourceforge.net/) but it seems quite bloated and I was looking for more of a lightweight option.  Any suggestions would be welcomed!  

 

[ihatetonyy]

Try this on for size: https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify

 

[George_Fusioned]

How about auditd or OSSEC?

 

[WebSearchingPro]

iNotify - https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki

AIDE - http://aide.sourceforge.net/

Tripwire - http://www.tripwire.org/

SAMHAIN - http://www.la-samhna.de/samhain/

AFICK - http://afick.sourceforge.net/

 

[TheLinuxBug]

Thanks Guys! I really appreciate the suggestions!

Cheers!

 

[telephone]

inotify! There are plenty of abstractions/ports for different languages, and inotify itself is simple to integrate/understand.

Here's an example of inotify in action via Bash:  nginx-watch

 

[fapvps]

+1 for AFICK

 

[dano]

i have been OSSEC with ok results -- just tune the notify and react, and you should be ok,.

 

[HalfEatenPie]

inotify! There are plenty of abstractions/ports for different languages, and inotify itself is simple to integrate/understand.

Here's an example of inotify in action via Bash:  nginx-watch

I love your domain link.

www.iamtelephone.com 

It's like "HELLO?  YES THIS IS TELEPHONE!" 

It sounds recursive.

Ok I'm done now.  This is totally unrelated to the entire topic at hand.  

 

[willie]

At first it sounded like you wanted something like tripwire.  Maybe you do, depending on your application.

 

[BuyCPanel-Kevin]

How about GIT?

 

[tonyg]

How about:

http://mmonit.com/monit/