Re: [MLUG] filesystem hooks

[Dave Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Jonathan King wrote:

> Interesting...that is just accounting, though, and doesn't let you
> "intervene" with the file creation/modfication, right?
> 
> There are also all kinds of very hacky things you can do with named
> pipes that can mimic some of the behavior you might want.  And I
> other people do stuff with cron jobs when you don't have to
> "intervene" with the modification and can deal with what I guess
> would be technically a "race condition" (file created and destroyed
> before cron job runs).
> 
> So what are you really trying to do here?
> 
> jking

I was wondering the same thing.  Plus, this would *really, really, really*
slow down your system.  Maybe grind it to a halt.  Think of the overhead
in forking, interpreting then executing a shell script each time a file
is written.  Think of all the temp files that get written.  That's a lot
of extra overhead.

If you want to account for stuff, CSA should allow you to monitor then run
scripts on the data to flag you.

--dlloyd

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