[CentOS] Inotify or equivalent
Bill Campbell
centos at celestial.com
Fri May 1 19:08:07 UTC 2009
On Fri, May 01, 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>I installed inotify and incrond to watch a directory and set the
>job as '/mnt/dir IN_ATTRIB chmod 0660 $@/$#' which worked very well
>except that as expected, IN_ATTRIB is to broad of a watch class as it
>caused an enormous amount of contention with the filemonitor and/or
>db server and the client side app was less than happy. Not to mention
>top showed it working away like mad...
>
>Is there any way to look for permission changes only, or something else
>that might work?
Are you looking for real-time changes, or would an intrusion
detection system such as aide or tripwire be sufficient?
Bill
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