One thing (one of the very few things) I like about windoze is
the file notification a program can receive when a file is
changed or a directory is changed. Rather than writing a
crontab entry to run once a minute looking for new files
in an upload directory, is there this type of file event
notification in AIX?

Mike

"Mike" <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> wrote in message
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> One thing (one of the very few things) I like about windoze is
> the file notification a program can receive when a file is
> changed or a directory is changed. Rather than writing a
> crontab entry to run once a minute looking for new files
> in an upload directory, is there this type of file event
> notification in AIX?
>
> Mike

You may want to investigate "audit" and "auditstream". Good luck.

Mike <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> wrote:
M> One thing (one of the very few things) I like about windoze is
M> the file notification a program can receive when a file is
M> changed or a directory is changed. Rather than writing a
M> crontab entry to run once a minute looking for new files
M> in an upload directory, is there this type of file event
M> notification in AIX?

The free UNIXes, by way of SGI, have this feature as well:

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/

I don't know whether AIX supports this. I would be suprised if
someone showed me that it does.

Regards,

Nicholas

I do not thing that standard AIX tool could do that.

I know that it is possible as commercial softwares (like
Unicenter TNF, from Computer Associates) do it.
Maybe someone knos about some freeware to do the job ?

Stephane

Mike a écrit:
>
> One thing (one of the very few things) I like about windoze is
> the file notification a program can receive when a file is
> changed or a directory is changed. Rather than writing a
> crontab entry to run once a minute looking for new files
> in an upload directory, is there this type of file event
> notification in AIX?
>
> Mike