HOWTO: make your machine react to changes in a directory

**Green_Star** · March 27th, 2009

Excellent, I just tried, working great. Thank you.

Originally Posted by unutbu

Green_Star, you are quite right dirmon version 0.0 did not react to deleted files.
I've modified dirmon to now handle such events. You can download dirmon.py (version 0.1)
from post #1.

In your .dirmon configuration file, change

Code:

event: file_modified

to

Code:

event: dir_changed

That's it! dirmon should now react whenever a file is created, modified, deleted, or moved to or from the monitored directory.

**Martje_001** · March 27th, 2009

I did not read it (yet!), but it looks good, thanks!

**HavocXphere** · March 27th, 2009

Nice. Bookmarked for later use.

10 respect points awarded.

**wph** · December 14th, 2009

This is a very simple and elegant interface to inotify, but I do have a question:

How do I get the actual Inotify event (ie - IN_CREATE, IN_MODIFY, etc) to be passed on the command line?

I dont know Python and I have been trying to wing it, but I cant seem to capture the actual event or pass it as Argument 3 to my script.....

example cmd: dirmon.sh [dirmon.py] [EventPath] [INOTIFY EVENT]

Since I am using dir_change as the mask, I am catching the events, but I cannot seem to get which event is matched passed to my script......

Can someone mod dirmon.py so I get the event IN_CREATE, etc... passed as an argument in the cmd ? If I see an example I can do it, but it is probably simple to do - for someone with more experience with python....

TIA

WPH

**blx_286** · February 17th, 2010

Can someone point me in the right direction? I am trying to use this to backup my home directory to an external USB drive. When I run it, I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./dirmon.py", line 5, in <module>
from pyinotify import (WatchManager, Notifier, ProcessEvent,
ImportError: cannot import name ALL_EVENTS

Thanks,
Tim