Fido

Fido is an open source and totally free command-line utility that allows users to easily watch files in real time, based on user-defined patterns.

With Fido you can monitor any file for changes, in both modification time and content. When a change is detected, Fido will execute a user-defined application.

The application has been designed to recognize log file rotation and immediately start monitoring from the beginning of the new file.

Fido has been originally designed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but it also works with other Linux operating systems.

What is new in this release:

• When a file is in use by another program, this release no longer treats that condition as a failure. This change was made to reduce false positive alerts.

What is new in version 1.1.1:

• When a file is in use by another program, this release no longer treats that condition as a failure. This change was made to reduce false positive alerts.

What is new in version 1.1.0:

• This version adds several new features.
• It can now test to see whether a file or the contents of a directory are older than a particular date.
• It can throttle its alerts so you don't flood an inbox or a network node manager.
• It also contains several minor bugfixes.

What is new in version 1.1.0 Beta 3:

• This version features numerous minor bugfixes related to memory management.

What is new in version 1.1.0 Beta 2:

• This version fixes the make installer for the sample conf file.
• It also includes a fido.service file.

What is new in version 1.1.0 Beta 1:

• This version fixes several minor bugfixes.

What is new in version 1.0.8:

• Fixed two memsets with len and char swapped
• Added a forever loop to the parser
• Removed pids array; storing one int