From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 103897 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2017 02:47:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 103885 invoked by uid 89); 14 Feb 2017 02:47:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: Yes, score=6.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPAM_SUBJECT1 autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-spam-relays-external:64.59.136.139, H*RU:64.59.136.139, excuse, Burns X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-so.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-so.shaw.ca) (64.59.136.139) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 02:47:28 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([174.0.238.184]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id dT9JchOAWsa1kdT9KcHaxG; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:47:26 -0700 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=W+NIbVek c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:117 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=U0KmDjCADoZSO3RcgloA:9 a=UOJTQ8SocFjhe5i2:21 a=7DFz_eTiK0zuuHQh:21 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=Mh6ofe1c_wIA:10 a=sRI3_1zDfAgwuvI8zelB:22 Subject: Re: Package request: fswatch Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca References: To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Brian Inglis X-Forwarded-Message-Id: Message-ID: <4925792d-5253-b159-aff1-8b15bdeb4432@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 02:47:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfD+rOYZiRomyGhfRCcTqScixgE9N06Gpem0gnPn66E1/jjXm5z4rpiF9yh7C30PWGU9NSVFFLe8xm5dheIqyY4chqqT+GOOY5ZjkyIOj5eFU9QBbyf7x UnlMiz4rxaPxOwarnDjhoesBc8qAU/rsjP5Q3jzO19i8hhLPUzo1ZjWZRpkPTu06rrXINfc6SiGryQ== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-02/txt/msg00183.txt.bz2 On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:30:29 -0800, Gerald Burns wrote: > Excuse me for being a total noob, but I'm unsure of how to reply to a > mailing list. Just Reply to List if your email client offers that, otherwise use Reply and specify the list email address as in your original post. > Regarding xtail being the same as fswatch, I believe they are > different. It sounds like xtail lets you physically see changes with > your eyeballs, where as fswatch is the watcher and can notify other > programs when changes occur. Gives you the name and content so you have more info to decide what you want to do. > In my particular scenario we have written a little script that uses > fswatch to monitor a directory, and when any changes occur they are > rsync'd to a remote server. For that use case, fswatch may be a better choice. You could just run an rsync command regularly in a cron job. > Thanks, and sorry again if this is bad etiquette. > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-02/msg00171.html Breaks proper thread message header references. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple