Perform operation whenever dir is altered

[John Lenton]

On 5 Jul 2004 08:13:06 -0700, Henry van der Beek <ninhenzo64 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to synchronise two directories across a network. This is
> no problem; I have been using rsync and it is working fine. However,
> rsync is normally triggered by cron, ie. at a given time interval, and
> I want it to be used whenever the contents of the directory is
> altered. This is probably a case of synching just the particular file
> that has been altered.
> 
> So, for every file in the directory, I want to trigger an rsync
> command whenever that file is edited. This functionality needs to
> cover any file type, and the directory needs to appear on both
> machines as a normally mounted directory. (We are running redhat9.0 on
> both machines
> 
> Does anyone know of a way of customising a directory in this way, or
> does anyone have any ideas of areas where I should be looking to
> achieve this kind of thing.

if both ends are Linux, you could use dnotify. If both ends are some
flavour of Unix, you could use famd.

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