Re: monitoring a directory's used space

[Callum Macdonald]

You could modify the rsync statement to avoid the need for wildcards.
There's something wonky with the way monit executes commands, so I'd
guess wildcard expansion doesn't work. At a guess this would work:
then exec "rsync /source/dir /dest/dir"

I've been watching this thread as I have a slightly similar need. One of
the options we're considering is lsyncd. It does almost exactly what
you've described, without generating notifications (that I'm aware of).
http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/

Cheers - Callum.

On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 23:44 -0400, Adam Wolfe wrote:
> I've decided to go with a
> "check directory client-stuff with path /yada/yada/
>      if changed timestamp then alert
>      if changed timestamp then exec my-sync-script"
> 
> This appears to be working exactly as I need it.
> I tried using a
>      "if changed timestamp then rsync /source/dir/* /dest/dir/"
> 
> but monit doesn't like wildcards (i.e. *) in the exec statement. Not too 
> much hassle, really.  Just confusing for a bit.
> 
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