Folder monitoring

[davidv]

Hello,

I try to find a solution on "how I can monitor a folder".
what I need to do is:
if there are files (the file names are never the same) in the folder we need to check how old they are and if they are older then 1 hour we need to send a mail that there are files older then 1 hour.

can someone help me.

thanks in advance.

best regards

David

[trikke]

Hi DavidV,

I had the same "Problem" and use this small perl script that i included as UserParamerter:

#!/bin/perl
use File::Find ;
find( {wanted => sub{-f && -M > 1/24 && ($ARGV[0]."/".$_ eq $File::Find::name) && print "$_\t" || print "NOK\n" }, no_chdir => "0" },$
ARGV[0] ) ;

exit 0

greets
Patrick

[davidv]

hi trikke,

thanks for that.

is this platform independent?

FYI: i need it for windows platform

[trikke]

Hi Davidv,
since it's a perl script it should be plattform independent!
Just check.
If not U should write another perl script with something like this:

<CODE>
use File::stat ;

print OUT "Getting timediff\n" ;
$st = stat("$file_found") ;
$delta_seconds = check_time($st->mtime) ;
print OUT "diff: $delta_seconds\n";
if ( $delta_seconds > 300 )
{
#print "no update since ($time_now-$file_time) seconds!\n";
print "1\n";
} else {
#print "file got updated in the last ($time_now - $file_time) seconds!\n";
print "0\n"
};
<\CODE>