Daemon that uses inotify to monitor files/directories

A daemon that monitors for events in a given file/directory, and informs the user of the changes in the log.

Not very useful but I always wanted to use inotify for something...

At the moment it only detects/logs file and directory creation.

Build

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DBUILDDOC=1
make

or if using ninja (Recommended)

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -GNinja -DBUILDDOC=1
ninja

Usage

daemon_inotify FILENAME
Where FILENAME is the directory or file to watch (Required argument)

If something like this happens:

cp backup_dr_automated_testing.vp8.webm DIR
cp -r Richard_Feynman DIR

Example log:

[Wed Feb 21 23:20:28 2018] File created: backup_dr_automated_testing.vp8.webm
[Wed Feb 21 23:20:33 2018] Directory created: Richard_Feynman

Improvements

• Using variable number of arguments
• More user friendly log messages
• Add systemd unit
• Add log entries for deletion, modification and rename of file/directories

License

GNU GPLv2