my understanding of fam's current implementation is that you need to tell
fam each directory that you want it to monitor. there's no option that I'm
aware of which allows you to recursively watch directories... altho that
seems like an interesting (tho potentially resource consumptive) option that
we might add.
dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Folkert van Heusden [mailto:folkert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 5:41 AM
To: fam@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: monitoring a complete path in one go
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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