<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Scott Bragg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walkingbear@gmail.com" target="_blank">walkingbear@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I'd approach it by experimenting with inotifywait and piping the diff of the pre-change with post-change file. </blockquote></div><br>`tail -f` now defaults to using the inotify API if it is present. So to test the application I wrote I simply did a `tail -f dhcpd.leases | socat unix-connect:/var/run/dhcpd-tracker.inpu stdio` (where dhcpd-tracker.input is the Unix socket my application listens to).<br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">James Sumners<br><a href="http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/">http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/</a><br><br>"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."<br><br>Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)<br>CH:D 59</div>
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