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Subject: monitoring a complete path in one go
From: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:41:26 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

My program multitail enables users to monitor not only a file, but also a
directory of files. One can then set to monitor for example:
/var/log/apache*/*/*
As you can see it supports multiple levels of directories.
Currently I'm using glob() to get a list of files matching the given pattern
and then calculate the difference with the previous run, every 5 seconds.

My question now is: will I also be able to do this with FAM? Or will I need
to retrieve complete directory-listings for each level (/var/log/apache1,
/var/log/apache2, /var/log/apache1/site1, /var/log/apache1/site2, etc.) and
start monitoring each of them? Or can I just pass "/var/log/apache*/*/*" to
fam?


Folkert van Heusden

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