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

TheLinuxBug

New Member
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!  
 

telephone

New Member
inotifyThere 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
 
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dano

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

HalfEatenPie

The Irrational One
Retired Staff
inotifyThere 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

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