imonitor

Dynamic filesystem monitoring daemon (experimental)

• imonitor: command line utility that sends requests to daemon via unix domain socket.
• imonitord: daemon that tracks inotify watches on multiple directories:
  • handles requests from imonitor: "add/remove/list"
  • spawns one parallel worker thread that uses polling to keep reading new inotify events
    and logs filesystem events inside watched directory (added/removed/modified) in the format:

Fri Sep 28 10:08:01 2018
D /home/msalama/imonitor/src/to_delete.txt

Sat Sep 29 13:06:21 2018
A /home/msalama/imonitor/src/new_file.txt

Sat Sep 29 13:06:33 2018
M /home/msalama/imonitor/src/modified.txt

• Requires inotify = linux kernel > 2.6.13

USAGE:

$ imonitor add /var/log
imonitord: [INFO] Watch added on /var/log | ID: 1

$ imonitor add /home/msalama/imonitor/src
imonitord: [INFO] Watch added on /home/msalama/imonitor/src | ID: 2

$ imonitor list
imonitord: [INFO] Watching ...
    👁️ ID:1 -> PATH:/var/log
    👁️ ID:2 -> PATH:/home/msalama/imonitor/src