I know of a feature in SGI's File System that launches an event when something
including data changes happen to a file. This might be a generic Journalling FS
feature. In which case installing a JFS might be one way. However I am not sure
of the current state of JFS on Linux. I know there has been many talks including
SGI contributions, but don't know of any current GA version. Maybe others can
educate me as well.
Benjamin Lee wrote:
> Slightly off topic...
>
> I was wondering if anyone has used something like 'watch' or 'stat' (or
> somthing else?) to detect the modification (change) of a file or directory,
> and then trigger an rsync?
>
> Of course, I could settle with a crond rsync every minute or so, I guess!
> I do this at the moment, was just thinking about an alternative...
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:23:22PM +0200, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
> > Peter van Dijk([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.04.13 10:23:26 +0000:
> > > I have a central box that generates all configfiles and puts them in a
> > > directory called /conf/mail on a NetApp fileserver, from which all
> > > qmail boxes copy their configuration periodically.
> > >
> > > Make sure you copy stuff to tmpfiles and then move 'm (also when
> > > generating files to go into /conf/mail). Especially over
> > > NFS, doing it any different is guaranteed trouble.
> > in several projects i used rsync[1] over ssh (openssh[2]) for distributing
> > configuration between machines (push updates).
> >
> > rsync does a great job, supporting incremental/differential updates and
> > moving the files in place after they have been transmitted and verified.
> >
> > happy easter
> > /k
> >
> > links:
> > [1] http://rsync.samba.org/
> > [2] http://www.openssh.com/
> >
> > --
> > > Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is no.
> > KR433/KR11-RIPE -- http://www.webmonster.de -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de
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