>I used the example 2 in the inotifywait manpage as the starting point >for my script. Using the close_write, create & move events worked well >for me. Looked at incrond - seemed overkill/overcomplicated - chose not >to use it. > >But if it's fighting with something else in the background trying to do >the same thing - it going to be a circular battle. Well incrond was as easy as easy gets, but didn't seem to provide the level of control I need. Taking your suggestion, I read that man page and setup a couple consoles with one running this: inotifywait -m --exclude "lost\+found" --exclude "qbdir\.dat" -e close --format "%:e %w" /mnt/Intuit_Data/*.* And made some files, and used the client to access/edit/close a company file. Well, qbdbfilemon polls the directory endlessly and not mention there is a bloody myriad of close_write/close_nowrite that take place. /me Throwing hands in the air... Aside from a manual cron job, or explicit admin intervention each time a company is made, I'm at a loss. Thanks everyone! jlc