Iain,
take a look at fam.
fam is a server that tracks changes to the filesystem and relays
these
changes to interested applications. Applications such as fm(1G) and
mailbox(1) present an up-to-date view of the filesystem. In the
absence of fam, these applications and others like them are forced to
poll the filesystem to detect changes. fam is more efficient.
Applications can request fam to monitor any files or directories in any
filesystem. When fam detects changes to monitored files, it notifies
the appropriate application. The FAM API provides a programmatic
interface to fam; see fam(3X).
fam is informed of filesystem changes as they happen by the kernel
through the imon(7M) pseudo device driver. If asked to monitor files
on an NFS mounted filesystem, fam tries to use fam on the NFS server to
monitor files. If fam cannot contact a remote fam, it polls the files
instead. fam also polls special files.
Normally, fam is started by inetd(1M). It is registered with
portmap(1M) as performing the sgi_fam service.
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 13:49, Iain wrote:
> Are there any solution out there to the MS 'offline files' facility?? To
> give an example:
>
> I want to sync part of my ~/ directory on my laptop with
> /home/iain/laptop/ on my server. I know I can do a variety of scripts
> that will compare and copy selectively, run rsync also, but what I am
> thinking of is a method to copy when there is a connection and a file is
> modified. Something a bit more automated.
>
> Anyone run across this sort of thing??
>
> Or is it going to be another job for perl??
>
> Regs.
>
> Iain.
>
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