On 07/11/07 10:23, Radu-Cristian Fotescu wrote: > It's not provided by EL5 nor by EL4, but FAM (the File Alteration Monitor > ) > is an alternative solution that works regardless of what kernel you have. Or use gamin (gam_server et.al.), which seem to be Red Hat preferred solution for this task. This one has C (same interface as FAM) and python bindings, and supposedly uses whatever mechanism the kernel offers for watching files or directories, eventually falling back to polling. On the other hand, this may be total overkill for watching a single directory every now and then... especially if you can live with a delay, and are not power-constrained (so spurious wakeup events don't matter). K.I.S.S(cientifcLinuxUser). Regards jan