Module: FileMonitoring

Defined in:
lib/file_monitoring.rb,
lib/file_monitoring/version.rb,
lib/file_monitoring/monitor_path.rb,
lib/file_monitoring/file_monitoring.rb

Overview

Daemon for monitoring directories for changes. Paths are checked for changes per user-defined period of time.

Directory defined changed when:

  1. Directory structure changed, i.e. sub-directories or files were added/removed

  2. One of the files located in the directory or one of its sub-directories was changed

  3. One of sub-directories changed (see 1. and 2. above)

File monitoring controled by following configuration parameters:

  • default_monitoring_log_path - holds path of file monitoring log. This log containd track of changes found during monitoring

  • monitoring_paths - path and file monitoring configuration data regarding these paths.

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: DirStat, FileMonitoring, FileStat, FileStatEnum, IdentFileInfo

Constant Summary collapse

VERSION = 
"1.4.1"
@@stable_state =

Number of iterations to move state from UNCHANGED to STABLE (for index)

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Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.stable_state ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/file_monitoring/monitor_path.rb', line 44

def self.stable_state
  @@stable_state
end

.stable_state=(stable_state) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/file_monitoring/monitor_path.rb', line 40

def self.stable_state=(stable_state)
  @@stable_state = stable_state
end

Instance Method Details

#monitor_files ⇒ Object

See Also:



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# File 'lib/file_monitoring.rb', line 27

def monitor_files
  fm = FileMonitoring.new
  fm.monitor_files
end