madhurikaushik@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am a new member of this group.Can some one help me in writing the
> script for detecting a folder or file creation?
>
> I have cygwin SSH running on a Windows 2003 Server.I would like to run
> a program everytime a user uploads a folder containing files or just
> files on to a directory.Can someone give me the script that I need to
> put in my crontab file for the required and I would like to run the
> script say every 1hr for detecting folder/file creations and would
> like to run the program based on this.

This has absolutely nothing to do with SSH, which is a secure protocol for
sending files or making remote logins or tunneling ports.

It sounds like you need to set up a source control system such as
Subversion, or some sort of an hourly snapshot comparison system, say based
on rsnapshot.

Hi All,


One more requirement - I would like to log the changes /creations in a
new txt file everytime the script runs.

Thank you,
Madhuri.M


madhurikaus...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am a new member of this group.Can some one help me in writing the
> script for detecting a folder or file creation?
>
> I have cygwin SSH running on a Windows 2003 Server.I would like to run
> a program everytime a user uploads a folder containing files or just
> files on to a directory.Can someone give me the script that I need to
> put in my crontab file for the required and I would like to run the
> script say every 1hr for detecting folder/file creations and would like
> to run the program based on this.
>
> Your help is appreciated.
> Thank you,
> Madhuri.M

Hi Nico,

Thanks for the quick response.So, you mean to say that I have to use
rsync or some sort???

Madhuri.


Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> madhurikaushik@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am a new member of this group.Can some one help me in writing the
> > script for detecting a folder or file creation?
> >
> > I have cygwin SSH running on a Windows 2003 Server.I would like to run
> > a program everytime a user uploads a folder containing files or just
> > files on to a directory.Can someone give me the script that I need to
> > put in my crontab file for the required and I would like to run the
> > script say every 1hr for detecting folder/file creations and would
> > like to run the program based on this.
>
> This has absolutely nothing to do with SSH, which is a secure protocol for
> sending files or making remote logins or tunneling ports.
>
> It sounds like you need to set up a source control system such as
> Subversion, or some sort of an hourly snapshot comparison system, say based
> on rsnapshot.

>>>>> "MK" == madhurikaushik@gmail com writes:

MK> Hi All, One more requirement - I would like to log the changes
MK> /creations in a new txt file everytime the script runs.

MK> Thank you, Madhuri.M

As Nico said, this is not a question about SSH. You would do better
with a book or newgroup about basic Unix systems administration. Or the
cron man page.

--
Richard Silverman
res@qoxp.net

On 2006-08-11, Richard E. Silverman wrote:

> with a book or newgroup about basic Unix systems administration.

Or even http://answers.google.com/answers/browse?catid=1200 where spending
a few dollars will save the effort of choosing a suitable newsgroup.

--
Elvis Notargiacomo master AT barefaced DOT cheek
http://www.notatla.org.uk/goen/
One of my other 11 computers runs Minix.

madhurikaushik@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Nico,
>
> Thanks for the quick response.So, you mean to say that I have to use
> rsync or some sort???

Followup set to comp.os.linux.setup: this is way, way, way off-topic for
comp.security.ssh

There are many ways to do this, but I *recommend* using rsync and rsnapshot
to create an hourly snapshot of the target directory, and run a direct
"diff" of the target directory and its most recent snapshot. This allows you
to report, on an hourly basis, on any changed files or directories. That
won't report changes in permissions: to do that, you can do a
"rsync -v -aH --dry-run $targetdir/ $snapshotdir/" and check the outputs of
that.

> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> madhurikaushik@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I am a new member of this group.Can some one help me in writing the
>>> script for detecting a folder or file creation?
>>>
>>> I have cygwin SSH running on a Windows 2003 Server.I would like to
>>> run a program everytime a user uploads a folder containing files or
>>> just files on to a directory.Can someone give me the script that I
>>> need to put in my crontab file for the required and I would like to
>>> run the script say every 1hr for detecting folder/file creations
>>> and would like to run the program based on this.
>>
>> This has absolutely nothing to do with SSH, which is a secure
>> protocol for sending files or making remote logins or tunneling
>> ports.
>>
>> It sounds like you need to set up a source control system such as
>> Subversion, or some sort of an hourly snapshot comparison system,
>> say based on rsnapshot.