On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:12 PM, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Jason Slack-Moehrle wrote: > >> Would anyone have thoughts? > > don't reinvent the wheel > > inotify builds and works fine on CentOS 5 > > -- Russ herrold In particular, 'incron' is very cool. I have just started using it for a project and it does exactly what you need. There are packages already available in the EPEL repository, no need to build.