File Monitoring Systems (FMSs) are used to notify sysadmins of modification, deletion, or creation of files on. the system. Commonly in system administration, File Monitoring Systems are deployed to track changes of. important system configuration files.
This application will notify the user through email when it detects any change in the files that the user has specified to track.
This application, when run initially will run the configuration program for you and create a config file called config.json.
The configuration file i.e config.json has 5 keys
name,path,email,interval,files_to_track
name: This parameter is the name of the user
path: This parameter is the path the user wants to track
email: This parameter is the email of the user
interval: This parameter is the time interval that the monitor will use to check
files_to_track: This parameter will contain the files the user wants to track in the directory.
Now the question arises how to start using the monitor. For this first try running the following command
python main.py
If there are any ImportErrors try running the following command:
pip install requirements.txt
