"Watch"ing a directory

[Steve Grubb]

On Wednesday 22 August 2007 11:40:00 Pete Briggs wrote:
> Once I tried something like touching a file, this worked as advertised,
> I'm using kernel:
>
> 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
>
> on Fedora 7

Fedora 7 does not have the subtree auditing patch in it yet. This means that 
if you place a watch on a directory, it is watching the inode of the 
directory entries. So, this will work for 1 level. 

IOW a watch on /etc will let you see a change to /etc/passwd, but you will not 
see a change to /etc/ssh/ssh_config because its 2 levels down.

-Steve