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Le Vendredi 16 F=E9vrier 2007 23:35, csevern@pacesetterglobal.com a=20
=E9crit=A0:
> I have been looking for some kind of freebsd software that will
> monitor specific directories and then email notify an email address
> when new files have been added.
>
> I have searched the ports tree with no success. If anyone has an idea
> of a solution and/or a combanation of ports that will achieve this
> task, i would appreciate it very much.

Why not a simple shell script run with cron?

Hint:

DIR=3D/path/to/target
OLD_FILES=3D/var/filescheck/number
NEW_FILES=3D$(ls -al $DIR | grep ^- | wc -l)

if [ $NEW_FILES gt $OLD_FILES ];then
  mail -s "new files found in $DIR" user@mail.com < /dev/null
fi

echo $NEW_FILES > $OLD_FILES

PM