[ale] file modification time via shell script

Tony Carter tcarter at entrusion.com
Fri Aug 3 19:19:48 EDT 2007


If you need instance notification and your Kernel is >= 2.6.13, take a look
at inotify. Look at Dnotify if your Kernel is <= 2.6.12.

-Tony

On 8/3/07, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
>
> I'v got an electronic voting machine that I need some help hacking on..
> NOT!  (but I did get your attention...)  ;-)
>
> Here's what I am trying to do however:  I need to run a script (via
> cron) that first determines if a log file changed since the last time
> the script ran before it does further processing.  Ideas?
>
> -Jim P.
>
>
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