sudo pip install pyinotify
Example
a@a:~$ vim notify_test.py
import pyinotify class MyEventHandler(pyinotify.ProcessEvent): def process_IN_ACCESS(self, event): print "ACCESS event:", event.pathname def process_IN_ATTRIB(self, event): print "ATTRIB event:", event.pathname def process_IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE(self, event): print "CLOSE_NOWRITE event:", event.pathname def process_IN_CLOSE_WRITE(self, event): print "CLOSE_WRITE event:", event.pathname def process_IN_CREATE(self, event): print "CREATE event:", event.pathname def process_IN_DELETE(self, event): print "DELETE event:", event.pathname def process_IN_MODIFY(self, event): print "MODIFY event:", event.pathname def process_IN_OPEN(self, event): print "OPEN event:", event.pathname def main(): # watch manager wm = pyinotify.WatchManager() wm.add_watch('/var/log', pyinotify.ALL_EVENTS, rec=True) # event handler eh = MyEventHandler() # notifier notifier = pyinotify.Notifier(wm, eh) notifier.loop() if __name__ == '__main__': main()
Test
python notify_test.py
Results
MODIFY event: /var/log/auth.log MODIFY event: /var/log/syslog MODIFY event: /var/log/syslog MODIFY event: /var/log/auth.log MODIFY event: /var/log/auth.log MODIFY event: /var/log/syslog MODIFY event: /var/log/auth.log MODIFY event: /var/log/syslog
References
1. http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2010/04/monitoring-filesystem-python-and-pyinotify/
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