flygoast / filmond

A files monitor and file informaton collector using Linux inotify.

filmond

Description

filmond is a file monitor and a file information collector implemented using Linux inotify. So it only can run on Linux.

When some files created, changed, accessed or deleted, it will send informations of the file to a controling server which you should prepare for gathering the reporting.

The information is reported through HTTP. You can use any server-end script to process them. You can also write your plugin to process the file event according to your need. Please refer the plugin directory.

Plugins

• submit: By HTTP, submit file information to remote server.

• chmod: Process invalid file and directory permisssion.

• demo: A demo as tutorial for filmond plugin development.

Requirements

• inotifytool(https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools)

• libcurl(https://github.com/bagder/curl)

• json-c(https://github.com/json-c/json-c)

• tokyocabinet(http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet) OPTIONAL

• pcre(http://www.pcre.org/)

Build

# make
# make install

Limits

It can ONLY run at Linux.