Yo,

This seems to be the right place for this rather annoying problem. I have done this neat application in Perl with Tk where one can index your harddrive(s) and then search within this information. Everything is saved either in a mySQL or a SQLite database. Now, I was hoping I could find some neat multiple OS solution to monitor the filesystem for adding files/folders within Perl. As it is now, you can go trough the database and check with hd for changes (so, if removed, then its deleted from database). Adding/Updating is annoying (but mostly timeconsuming), because the script just goes recurivly from where you want, and thus the user have to update once and a while him/herself. This is rather stupid since mostly it's just a few files/folders added/deleted. I wanted some solution where the script can run in background and somehow be noticefied when a user adds/deletes a file/folder ANYWHERE. Natrually, I can use some kind of monitor where one can set WHERE to monitor, but it would be more neat to be noticefied by OS or something simulair. (Or, if one could check some table for new entries?) I wanted some more closer-to-harddrive solution, where one (in Linux for instance), could get latest inodes, or be noticefied when a change accur.

Anyone got some bright ideas?

Thanks,
Ace

In reply to Monitoring filesystem for file/folder changes by Ace128

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